Born at St. John's Wood, London.
Enlisted at Westminster into the 14th Light Dragoons on the 11th of October 1842. No regimental number was allocated as he did not join the regiment from the Depot. .
Age: 18 years 6 months,
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Servant.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
Transferred to the 4th Light Dragoons on the 1st of April 1843.
Discharged from Edinburgh on the 12th of December 1866.
"Free, at own request, after 24 years' service."
Served 24 years 44 days. In Turkey and the Crimea from the 17th of July 1854 to May of 1856.
Conduct and character: "a good soldier".
In possession of four Good Conduct badges.
Twenty times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Once tried by Court-martial.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial (offence not shown),on the 28th of May 1853 and sentenced to 21 days imprisonment, of which 7 days were remitted,
Aged 42 years 7 months on discharge.
To live at No. 5 Grove Place, Lisson Grove, London, but he also lived at some time at No. 3 Aubrey Road, Crouch End, Middlesex.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
His documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals.
Attended the first Balaclava Banquet in 1875.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879.
Signed the Loyal Address to the Queen in 1887.
Attended the Annual Balaclava Dinners in 1892-93-95. (Lummis and Wynn state that he was also at the Dinner in 1899, but this is doubtful, especially as he is not shown as being invited, or present, at the Jubilee celebrations given by T.H. Roberts at his Fleet Street offices in June of 1897.)
PB: Sort this out and add above. [CHECK against CRIDER p.104. ] also in 3rd ed p.104
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"Subjoined is another extract from a private letter, sent by Mr. G. A. Price, 1174 of the "E" Troop, to one of his comrades:
"All Captain Hutton could muster of the old "E" troop was twenty-eight, on the morning of the charge. We came back numbering seven. I was one of the seven.
There is one little incident I well remember. On the night of the 24th the only shirt, drawers, and socks I was possessed of had been washed, and when we got the order to turn out, I did so minus shirt, drawers, and socks, leaving them on the bushes to dry, and while engaged in the charge, strange to say, I was even then thinking whether some Russian would have the pleasure of wearing my shirt. Captain Hutton led us up to the guns; it was poor Cornet Sparks and Sergeant-Major Hubert, who dismounted to cut the traces of the horses attached to the Russian guns. I saw them both fall.
I was left quite alone once. My comrades were shot right and left of me. The last two men I saw fall were poor Tommy Houlton and Charley Marshall.
I grieved very much for my horse, E 40, for, after bearing me through the charge without a scratch, he died of starvation, strange to say, with a sack of corn on his back. "