Born in the parish of St. Pancras, London, but was christened in the church of St. Marylebone on the 24th of January 1819, the son of Robert Strickland and his wife, Elizabeth.
Enlisted at London on the 4th of December 1838.
Age: 20 years.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Hair-dresser.
Sallow complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Returned to England aboard the "Repulse" on the 27th of March 1842, having left Bombay on the 28th of December 1841.
Sent to Scutari on the 26th of October 1854.
Discharged from Edinburgh on the 18th of April 1866.
"Free, to pension after 24 years' service."
Served 27 years 134 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year 10 months.
India 2 years 4 months.
Conduct: "a good soldier".
In possession of four Good Conduct badges.
Never entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 48 years on discharge.
To live at Linburn, Midcalder Station, near Edinburgh.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and` Sebastopol.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 31st of January 1860, with a gratuity of £5.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimea, Turkish, and Long Service medals.
1881 Census
62, Charterhouse Square, St Clement's Parish, London.
The 1881 Census shows him as aged 63, a Pensioner, married, born in St. Pancras Parish, London.The Head of the Household was Mary Strickland, 62, a Housekeeper (Domestic), married, born in St. Clement's Parish, London. It is not clear if they were husband and wife, or whether she was a sister-in-law. There were 16 Lodgers, all shown as Warehousemen, living there, so it was seemingly a Lodging House.
Pension letters were sent to the 15th of June 1894.
The Annual Report, (1868) of the Army and Navy Pensioner's Employment Society, shows him as having been found a position as a Groom in May of that year at Edinburgh at a wage of £40 per annum, but he is again shown in June of the same year as having been found a position in London as a Groom and Coach-man at £40 per annum, plus expenses.