Born at Maidstone, Kent.
Enlisted into the 15th Light Dragoons at Westminster on the 14th of October 1852. No Regimental number was allocated as he did not join the regiment from the Depot.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Groom.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Dk. brown hair.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 17th of June 1854 and confined until the 23rd of June.
Transferred to the 8th Hussars on the 24th of June 1854.
From Private to Corporal: 1st of July 1854.
Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of August 1854.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of June 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1854.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant-Major on the 1st of July 1859.
"Confined", 5th-7th of August 1861, and tried by a Regimental Court-martial and reduced to Private on the 8th of August 1861.
Re-engaged for a further 12 years' service on the 22nd of October 1864.
From Private to Corporal: 10th of October 1865.
Discharged from Longford on the 11th of November 1873.
"Free, at own request, after 21 years' service."
Served 21 years 19 days.
Conduct: "very good".
In possession of four Good Conduct badges.
Three times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Twice tried by Court-martial.
Awarded a pension of 1/- per day.
To live at No. 51 Bone's Alley, Maidstone, Kent, after discharge.
Next of kin: Wife, Margaret Waghorne.
He is shown on the Regimental "Married roll" from the 8th of November 1864. They had no children by the 30th of April 1873.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Mutiny medal with clasp for Central India.
Served at Kotah and Gwalior.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
1881 Census
Yeoman's Cottages, Barming, Kent
The 1881 Census Returns show a man of this name as a General Labourer, aged 50, born in Maidstone, Kent, with his wife, Margaret, 51, born in Ireland. No children were shown.