Born at Swaffham, Norfolk.
Enlisted at London on the 16th of December 1854.
Age: 24.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Servant.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
From Private to Corporal: 10th of September 1857.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial for "absence" on the 2nd of June 1858,
Invalided to Chatham on the 10th of April 1861
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 30th of April 1861:
"Unfit for further service from Pulmonary Consumption following an attack of influenza which he did not report sufficiently early."
Conduct: "good".
Five times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book.
Once tried by Court-martial.
Served 6 years 108 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year.
To live in Weymouth, Dorset, after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.