Born at Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Enlisted at Chester on the 14th of November 1854.
Age: 23.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Mason.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Brighton on the 15th of August 1855. Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
Was batman to Captain White in India.
The musters for July-September 1858 show no particular service movement during the whole of the period.
Discharged, "time expired", from Aldershot on the 14th of December 1866.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp. (Shown on roll as Henry "Somers".)
1881 Census
83 Langham Street Kirkdale, Lancs
Henry Summers, aged 49, Stonemason, born Harrogate.
Ann Summers, wife, 39, born Liverpool.
No children are shown.