Enlisted at Dublin on the 10th of May 1847.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None shown.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Echunga" on the 15th of May 1854. To England with Captain Clutterbuck (no date shown). The Captain, who was wounded at Balaclava, may have been invalided.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Newbridge on the 17th of December 1855. Payment of £20.
Served 8 years 7 months.
Conduct and character: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava and Sebastopol.
He was presented with his Crimean medal by Queen Victoria at a ceremony on Horse Guards Parade on the 18th of May 1855.
His name appears on the Nominal Return of those present now in the PRO, also on a similar roll which appeared in the United Services Magazine for June of 1855 and on that which appeared in the "Illustrated London News" of the 26th of May 1855.
(See record of John Thomas Brudenell (the Earl of Cardigan) for antecedents of the artist who painted a picture of the scene and details regarding the picture itself.)