Born at Warwick.
Enlisted at Birmingham on the 1st of March 1847.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Button-maker.
Discharged, as "Worthless", from Dublin on the 7th of November 1856.
Served 9 years 490 days.
Conduct: "Indifferent". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Sherriff's name was included in the 1877 list, but not in the 1879 revised list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society.