Brigadier H St G Schomberg CBE DSO

Commanding Officer - The East Surrey Regiment

Commanded 1^st Bn The East Surrey Regiment from 21^st December 1931 to 21^st December 1935.

Harold St George Schomberg was born on 24^th August 1886. He was commissioned in The East Surrey Regiment from Militia on 8^th July 1908 and joined the 1^st Battalion. He served with the 1^st Battalion in France and was wounded in September 1914. He rejoined the Battalion on 10^th October and was again wounded on 30^th October 1914.

From October 1915 to July 1916 he was Commandant of Detention Barracks, A1dershot. He then served with 1/4^th Bn The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and 1/6^th Bn The Gloucestershire Regiment in Italy from 1917 to 1919.

He was awarded the DSO while in command of 1/6^th Gloucester’s.

He was Mentioned in Despatches four times and awarded the Italian Al Valore Militare.

In January 1921 he was with the 2^nd Bn The East Surrey Regiment Details at Aldershot and in June 1921 was posted to the Depot. in 1924 he rejoined the 2^nd Battalion with whom he served until appointed to command the 1^st Battalion from 21^st December 1931. He commanded that Battalion in India until 21^st December 1935 when he was appointed to command 149^th Northumberland Infantry Brigade (TA). He retired from the Army on 15^th February 1939. Later that year he was recalled to command Shorncliffe Garrison and from 1940 to 1941 he commanded 222^nd Infantry Brigade. He was made a CBE. To his friends he was known as 'Count'.

He died on 11^th July 1954.

For obituary see the Journal of The East Surrey Regiment Vol VI No 3 November 1954 pages 105 and 106.

 

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