Born at Dorchester, but was baptised at Parracombe on the 14th of December 1836, the son of Edward Smith and his wife, Elizabeth.
Enlisted at Dorchester on the 19th of June 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Mason.
Sent to the Cavalry Depot on the 10th of July 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
A man of this name (but no regimental number shown) appears on a nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, and shows him as being On Duty there from the 4th of November.
(See also record of 1659 John Smith,
Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment" from Brighton on the 23rd of April 1857.
Served 2 years 302 days.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.