Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Deputy Inspector-General H. J. Schooles, Army Medical Department

South Africa 1834-53 (Surgn., M.D., 2nd Bn. 60th Rifles); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Surgn., M.D., 2nd Batn. 60th Ryl. Rifles); China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £750-850

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Henry James Schooles was born on 10 October 1815 and qualified as a M.D. at Glasgow in 1837. He was appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the 81st Foot on 28 June 1839 and Staff Surgeon on on 1 October 1847. After a period with the 69th Foot and on Half Pay, he was appointed Surgeon to the 60th Foot on 13 December 1853 and Surgeon-Major on 22 July 1859. With them he served in the Third Kaffir War and in the Indian Mutiny, based in the Shahabad District of Bengal, 1857-58. He then served in the China War of 1857-60 where he was in medical charge of the Cavalry Brigade. Schooles retired on Half Pay with the honorary rank of Deputy Inspector-General on 9 September 1864. He died at Hythe on 12 May 1878. Sold with copied research.