Enlisted into the 3rd Light Dragoons at Maidstone on the 18th of September 1850. Regimental No. 2095.
No other enlistment details are shown.
"Absent without leave": 12th-16th of June.
In military confinement: 17th-21st of June. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial and imprisoned from the 22nd of June - 28th of June 1851 in Fort Clearance Prison.
Embarked for India on the 28th of July 1851.
Transferred to the 15th Hussars on the 17th of September 1853. Regimental No. 1666.
Transferred to the 11th Hussars on the 6th of October 1854 as a "Volunteer.".
From Private to Corporal: 1st of February 1855.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 16th of May 1855.
Reduced to Private for "gross neglect of duty when Corporal in charge of the Detachment Guard at Headquarters" by a Regimental Court-martial on the 4th of March 1856.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of January 1858.
Reduced to Private by a Regimental Court-martial on the 3rd of August 1858.
Transferred to the 17th Lancers at Brighton on the 31st of March 1859. Regimental No. 517.
He was Acting Corporal during the voyage to India, embarking on the 17th of September 1859. Arrived at Bombay to join the regiment on the 24th of January 1860.
Sick at during the month of December 1862.
Embarked for England on the 17th of April 1863, and at the Maidstone Depot from the 13th of August.
Discharged, "invalided," from Maidstone on the 20th of August 1863.
Served 12 years 237 days.
Conduct: "Latterly good." Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.