Born at Tarbert, Co. Kerry.
Enlisted at London on the 9th of February 1853.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Clerk.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
At Scutari from the 4th of April — 11th of May 1855.
"04 04 1855 — 24 04 1855: At Scutari
2Q and 3Q 1864: Commissariat Staff Corps" [WL]
Transferred to the Commissariat Corps at Dublin on the 1st of July 1861.
"Court martial at Newbridge on 05 11 1862 for being asleep on sentry duty. Sentenced to 56 days Hard Labour." [WL]
Private to 2nd. Class Corporal: 1st of November 1863.
Corporal: 1st of November 1863.
Corporal to Sergeant: 7th of February 1865.
He was re-engaged at Montreal for a further 9 years' service on the 7th of February 1865.
Transferred to the Army Service Corps on the 1st of April 1870. Regimental No. 991.
Appointed 3rd Class Clerk (acting 2nd Class Staff Sergeant) on the 1st of February 1871.
To 2nd Class Staff Sergeant: 1st of May 1872.
To 1st Class Staff Sergeant: 1st of December 1872.
Served with the Transport Branch.
Discharged from Portsmouth on the 2nd of February 1877: "He having claimed it on the termination of his second period of limited service."
Conduct: "very good". Was, when promoted, in possession of two Good Conduct badges and would now have had five.
Twice entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial. [PB: Though see WL finding, above.]
Served 23 years 240 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months. British North America, 6 years 7 months.
To live at Portsmouth after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish Medal.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 26th of July 1871.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopo, Turkish Medal and the Long Service medal.
He was also awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on the 1st of April 1879 with a gratuity of £10. The roll for this shows him as dying on the 1st of June 1909.
Attended the First Balaclava Banquet in 1875.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879.
Believed to have died on the 1st of June 1909.