Born in Swansea,
Enlisted at London on the 14th of December 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Hounslow on the 1st of September 1855, Regimental No. 156.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Private to Cpl.18 of June 1861.
Removed to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 5th of September 1862.
From Private to Corporal: 14th of January 1866.
"In confinement", 8th — 14th of August, and reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 15th of August 1870.
Granted "free discharge" from Canterbury on the 14th of April 1872.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.
He appears on the Nominal Roll of surviving members of the Enrolled Pensioner Force of Western Australia entertained at a Banquet held at St. George's Hall in Perth on the 28th of June 1897 as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. He was then shown as possessing the Crimea, Crimea-Turkish, and Indian Mutiny medals.
From the date of his discharge he could not have gone out as a guard on the convict ships (these having ended in January 1868) but could easily have joined the E.P.F. before its disbandment in 1880, although he is not shown on the final Nominal Roll of the Enrolled Guard on its disbandment on the 31st of March 1887.
The Dictionary of Western Australia Immigrants 1850-1924 merely shows him as "Arrived as Enrolled Pensioner Guard. Formerly Private 17th Lancers."