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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 41

(x) India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (Captain C. Schofield 4th. Punjab Infy.), toned, good very fine

Charles Schofield was born on 3 December 1862, the son of Joshua Schofield, a warehouseman living at 4 Thurlow Villas, West Dulwich. Admitted to Dulwich College as a Scholar in 1875, Schofield was appointed President of the Debating Society from 1879-80, Editor of The Alleynian from 1880-81, and played in the 1st XV from 1880-81 and soccer XI in 1881. Admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst - where he continued to foster a love of rugby - he was appointed to a commission in the Dorsetshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant on 10 March 1883, and was promoted Captain in the 4th Battalion, Punjab Infantry on 10 March 1894. Unmarried, he died not long thereafter in 1898 at Dera Ismail Khan.

According to the Army & Navy Gazette of 14 May 1898, the death of Captain Schofield in the North-Western Province of India was reported to his family by telegraph, their article noting, 'he served in the Maranzai (first) expedition, 1891, and in the Waziristan expedition, 1894-95'; sold with copied research from the Dulwich College Register and extracts from his School Record Card which notes that he academically came first in his class of 26 boys in the Christmas Report of 1877.


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Sold for
£280

Starting price
£140