Born at Halifax, Yorkshire, and was baptised there on the 18th of January 1835, the son of Samuel and Mary Shackleton.
Enlisted at Halifax by the 3rd L.D. for the 4th. on the 28th of February 1855.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: Bricklayer.
Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on the 1st of August 1857. Regimental No. 105.
Joined the Depot from India on the 22nd of December 1866.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 17th of June 1867.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal only. (See record of 1941 Samuel Briggs.)
Landed in the Crimea after the 9th of September 1855 but is specially entitled to the Crimean medal in consequence of having served with the regiment during the Expedition to Eupatoria in the month of October of that same year... Camp Aldershot, 16th of November 1857.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow.
Served in the field in Oude, East Indies, from the 4th of February — 14th of May 1858, including the siege of Lucknow, 2-16 of March 1858.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Awarded a Special "Campaign Pension". Date not shown.
On the 5th of November 1895, he, together with just over 100 veterans of the campaigns up to and including the Ashanti War of 1874-8. were invited to an Assembly and Banquet at Shrewsbury, and from the Market Square marched to the Music Hall. He is known to have lived in Spring Cottages, Foregate, Shrewsbury, and was employed in the town in his fomer occupation as a bricklayer. In November of 1895, at the age of 60 years, he was granted a pension of 9d. per day.