"For an act of valour performed in action against the rebels and mutineers at Boolundshur, on the 28th September, 1857, when these two soldiers evinced the most determined bravery in working their gun under a very heavy fire of musketry, whereby they cleared the road of the enemy, after every other man belonging to it had been either killed or disabled by wounds.
(Despatch of Major Turner, Bengal Horse Artillery, dated Boolundshur, 2 October 1857.)[1]
Further information
He died in Masterton, New Zealand on 24 January 1892[2] after emigrating, and was buried at the Archer Street Cemetery.[3]