Rank: Sergeant
Unit: A Trp, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: October 23, 1893 in Fort Wingate, New Mexico. He was 47.
Date of birth: 1846
Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation prior to enlistment: Soldier
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 17 September 1897
Age at death: 50 or 51
Cause of death: Heart complications
Location of fatality: Fort Riley, Kansas
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Place of interment: Fort Riley Post Cemetery in Fort Riley, Kansas
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