Born at Bury.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 3rd of February 1855.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Plumber.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 14th of July 1855,
At Scutari from the 12th of August 1855 and sent to England on the 14th of September.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
From Private to Corporal: 17th of September 1857.
Tried at Colaba, India, by a District Court-martial on the 28th of May 1859 for being "Drunk on duty", but found "Not guilty."
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 9th of April 1863
Discharged, "time expired," from Coventry on the 4th of February 1867.
Served 12 years 5 days.
Conduct and character: "very good.".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges. Once tried by Court-martial.
He was also tried by a General Court-Martial at Neemuch, India, on the 20th of February 1860 for "Perjury". Found "Not Guilty."
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
Further detailed medal information archived.
1881 Census
A man of this name was shown in the 1881 Census Returns as living at No, 10 Hornby Street, Heap, Lancashire, a Painter (Master) aged 44, born at Heywood, Lancashire, with his wife, Mary A. aged 33, born in Ireland, and one child as a Scholar, and a sister-in-in, Eliza J. Smith, born in Ireland.