Born in Kirkpatrick, Dumfries.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 2nd of May 1848.
Age: 17.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
From Private to Corporal: 16th of November 1853.
Died, "of cholera", in the Crimea on the 22nd of September 1854.
Next of kin: Father, Robert Souter, living in Kirkpatrick.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state,"Name is not on medal roll", but he is to be found on the Sebastopol clasp roll.
Died, "of cholera", in the Crimea on the 22nd of September 1854.
Next of kin: Father, Robert Souter, living in Kirkpatrick.