Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Enlisted at London on the 14th of April 1846.
Age: 18 years 6 months.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Light brown hair.
At Scutari General Hospital from the 14th of September 1854 until being sent to rejoin the regiment on the 3rd of October.
Discharged from Dublin on the 7th of October 1862.
"Unfit for further service - Since the former certificate (missing) Private Wroots has not done a day's duty and instead of improving, has lost flesh. He was transferred to the General Hospital, Dublin, when the Regiment left for Cahir."
His original medical certificate prior to discharge stated:
"Paralysis, right upper and lower extremities, following an apoplectic seizure whilst on duty at the Sandhurst Military College in August of 1860. Probably constitutional."
Served 16 years 156 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 2 years.
Conduct and character: "very good."
In possession of three Good Conduct badges.
Nine times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 34 years 6 months on discharge.
Granted a pension of 11d. per day.
To live at 27, St John's Square, Clerkenwell, London.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879.
His portrait and account of the Charge appeared in theIllustrated London News for the 30th of October 1875. (See copies in the 11th Hussar file.)
Entered the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of March 1870.
At the time of his entering the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner in March 1870 he was 53 years of age, and "suffering from rheumatism in the upper right and lower extremities, contracted on duty," a "single man", of "good" character, and was previously living at the address he gave on discharge.
Died at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on the 30th of April 1880.
He was buried on the 5th of May 1880 in Grave No. 101674 in Brompton Cemetery. No memorial stone was erected.
There is a copy of a photograph of his grave-site in the Chelsea Pensioner's Plot in Brompton Cemetery, London, in the 11th Hussar file.