Born at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and was baptised there on the 6th of January 1813, the son of Benjamin Prince and his wife, Mary.
Enlisted at Birmingham on the 18th of June 1832.
Age: 19 years 2 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Painter and glazier.
Fair complexion. Grey eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Embarked for India on the 12th of January 1833.
Returned to England aboard the "Repulse" on the 27th of March 1842, having left Bombay on the 28th of December 1841.
From Private to Corporal: 28th of February 1850.
Reverted to Private "at his own request," on the 6th of September 1851.
At Scutari from the 4th of April — 11th of May 1855.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 13th of July 1858.
"Unfit for further military service. Has chronic rheumatism — the result of long and arduous service."
Served 26 years 14 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months
In India: 8 years 6 months.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Awarded a pension of 1/2d per day.
Sent to Portsmouth on discharge, but he was living in Birmingham in 1859.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
He was awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 3rd of May 1855, with a gratuity of £5.
Documents confirm the award of these medals.
The muster roll for the period states, "On Service in Scinde," From this he could also have been entitled to the medal for Ghuznee.
A group of medals, comprising of the medal for Ghuznee, four clasp Crimean medal, the Turkish Medal and the L.S. & G.C medal all named to him, were sold from the "Gaitskill" (ex "Palmer") collection at a Glendining's auction on the 29th of May 1911.
In 1998 it was learnt that this group of medals is in the Officers' Mess of the Royal Irish Hussars, and has presumably been in regimental possession since last being sold.