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 Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906
| Date transcribed | 2012-05-21 | | Transcribed by | Robert Charnock | | Comment | Vol 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.
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 | Surname | CORBOULD | | | Given names | Pelham Stewart | | | Awards | VD Volunteer Officers Decoration 13 May 1922 | | | Birth | 28 September 1880 | | | Marr | 20 February 1907 | | | Death | 25 January 1963 | | | Wifes name | Mary Swinhoe Obbard | | | Wifes fathers name | Robert Obbard, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, Central Provinces | | | Children | 1 son, 2 daughters | | | Primary Education | St Paul's and Bloxham School, Banbury (1893-98) | | | Term at CH | 1901-04 | | | Academic achievements | Standing third in his year; Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant conservator, Forest Dept | | | Career | Demobilised April 1919 and resumed duty with Forest Dept. Deputy conservator Forest Dept. | | | Military & War Service | Having been previously in the 'Artists' volunteers since 1898, on the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he was one of the group from that regiment chosen to join the City of London Volunteers and sailed for S. Africa Jan 1900. He served in operations in Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal (including battle of Diamond Hill) Received Freedom of the City of London. Served in the Nagpur Rifles 1906-15. Commissioned I.A.R.O. 1 September 1910. Captain 1 September 1915. WW1 August 1914 mobilized with 4th battalion Royal Berkshire Regt. and ordered to India and posted to 108th Infantry, Bombay. Appointed Station Staff Officer Deolali 1915-16. Cantonment magistrate Deolali, Kirkee & Poona. 3rd Sappers & Miners 1 Aug 1916. WW2 posted as Adjutant & Quartermaster No. 24 Internment Camp 2 Sep 1939. Commissioned Territorial Army Reserve of Officers (special list) 2 Sep 1939-3 Apr 1948 | | | Retirement | Retired 20 July 1924 | | | Other | His son Lieut. A.S. Corbould, RN was killed when his ship HMS Tynsdale was sunk 12 December 1943 defending a Malta convoy; Lived at Hardington Mandeville, Yeovil, Somerset. J.P. and Magistrate 1st class |
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