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 Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906

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Date transcribed2012-05-21
Transcribed byRobert Charnock
CommentVol 1 F.W. Abbatt to RHE Hutton-Squire

At a meeting of the Coopers Hill Society in 1959 the lack of any biographical record of students admitted to the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, was discussed. This register is an attempt to complete a record. It may be regarded as an appendix to ‘A Short History of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill’ by J.G.P. Cameron, C.I.E., issued by the Coopers Hill Society for private circulation in 1960.

The names of the students admitted have been taken from the calendars published annually by authority and preserved in the library of the India Office, Whitehall. The biographical details have been compiled mainly from information in the magazines mentioned on page 28 of Cameron’s History.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "COLBECK" in "Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906 " Surname  COLBECK    
Given names  Charles Edward    
Awards  MC (1919), FCH, Col (late RE)    
Birth  11 April 1881    
Marr  17 May 1919    
Death  16 November 1957    
Wifes name  Beryl Scrimgeour    
Wifes fathers name  W. Scrimgeour of Hemsby Hall, Norfolk    
Fathers name  Charles Colbeck, MA, Housemaster 'Moretons', Harrow    
Children  1 son, 1 daughter    
Primary Education  Harrow    
Term at CH  1900-03    
Sports career  Capt. Association football    
Academic achievements  At Coopers Hill 1st year; prizeman Chemical laboratory and electricity; 2nd year; prizeman physical laboratory.    
Career  Served one year training Great Northern Railway workshops, Doncaster. Practical course NWR workshop Lahore 1907    
Military & War Service  Commissioned Royal engineers 1903. Defence of Kut-el-Amara (MC). Prisoner of war. Twice mentioned dispatches. WW1 Mesopotamia operations 1915. Military advisor Indian States Sappers & Miners. Searchlight Battalion Blackdown. Commandant School of Electric Lighting Gosport 1928-31. C.R.E. 1st Division Aldershot. Instructor Senior Officer's School, Sheerness. Member R.E. Board, radar development 1937-40. Commandant anti-aircraft Training Centre Retford    
Retirement  Retired 1942    
Other  President Coopers Hill Dinner 1 July 1937; Commandant 8th Battalion East Suffolk, Home Guard; Mayor of Aldeburgh 3yrs; Town Council Member for sea defence. His son also was commissioned in the Royal Engineers    
Ref  Coopers Hill Mag. IV 2,6 & 10, XIII 2, Obit XVI 1    
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