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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 564

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Corpl. C. Pemberton S. V. Lt. Horse), engraved naming, good very fine

Medal as per Indian Army Order 1 September 1913.

Charles McLeod Fraser Pemberton was born on 15 March 1873 at Meerut, youngest son (of seven) of Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Pemberton, Royal Artillery. Young Pemberton was baptised at Morar, Gwalior on 2 June 1873 and by April 1891 was a Clerk living at Clyde House, Nutfield Road, Reigate, Surrey. He became a tea planter in the Sylhet Division of Assam, being an Assistant with Mookhamcherra Tea Company Ltd., Dullabcheera and in 1893 joined the Surma Valley Light Horse, being promoted Corporal in May 1900. Married at St Andrew's, Calcutta in November 1905, he was Superintendent of the East India & Ceylon Tea Company Ltd., with 2,618 acres and was its Manager by 1915. He died at Dullabcherra on 14 March 1917; sold together with a file of copied research.

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