Born in Manchester.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 3rd of May 1848.
Age: 18 years 10 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Black-smith.
Dark complexion. Hazel eyes. Dk. brown hair.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of February 1855.
Sent to Scutari General Hospital on the 5th of April 1855 and invalided to England on the 23rd of June.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 28th of March 1857 for "being drunk in camp," and reduced to Private
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 12th of May 1857:
"Being unfit for further service from unhealthy constitution — ailing with complaint of obscure note. Is flat-footed and suffers from a violent cough and pain over false ribs attributable to a fall from his horse of which no report was made at the time, nor do I consider well-founded.
Never likely to become efficient."
Served 9 years 10 days.
In Bulgaria: 2 months.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 3 months.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
He was granted a pension of 6d. per day for 2 years.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps.