Born at Bridport, Dorset.
Enlisted at Dorchester on the 1st of June 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 9,"
Trade: Painter.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 10th of July 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 5th of April 1855.
Discharged, "invalided", from Dublin on the 27th of June 1865.
Granted a temporary pension of 8d. per day for 1 year.
To live at Dorchester after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Granted a "deferred pension of 5d. per day" upon reaching the age of 50 years on the 2nd of November 1885.
Named as "Charles" Rendall at this time and described as having served 11 years 1 month, in Turkey and the Crimea, 1 year, being of a fresh complexion, hazel eyes and brown hair, and was at that time living at Upwey, near Dorchester.
A man of this name was shown iin the 1881 Census Returns as living at No. 7 Percival Street, Castleton, Lancashire, as a Coachman, aged 45 years, born in Dorset, with his wife, Jane, aged 45, born at Rochdale, Lancashire and five children, aged 22 to 6 years, the three eldest shown as Cotton Operatives and the youngest as Scholars.