James Holmes Schoedde

Lieutenant-General Sir James Holmes Schoedde KCB (1786 – 14 November 1861) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot.

Early life James Holmes Schoëdde was born in 1786 and was a 'child of the regiment'. His father, Lieutenant Colonel C Lewis Theodore Schoëdde, had entered the 60th in the year 1780, and left it as lieutenant-colonel in 1805.

Military career When only in his fifteenth year, Schoëdde obtained an ensigncy in Lowenstein's Levy (Lowenstein's Light Infantry Regiment) in May 1800. He served in the campaign in Egypt in 1801, and for his services received the Gold Medal from the Grand Seignior. In April 1802, he was appointed to the 5th battalion of the 60th Regiment, and became a captain when nineteen years old in 1805, and did not obtain another step in regimental rank for twenty years. He, as well as Galiffe, was given the Army Gold Medal for Nivelle, and he was promoted brevet-major for Vittoria.

He served in Gibraltar from 1816 to 1818, in Canada from 1818 to 1824, and then, having returned home, and having been promoted major in January 1825, he went with the 1st battalion 60th Regiment to revisit some of the scenes of his former services in Portugal, with the force known as "Canning's expedition". They remained in Portugal 1826 and 1827. Schoëdde returned home in the latter year, and served with the 60th until March 1829, when he was promoted to an unattached lieutenant-colonelcy. and colonel of the 55th Regiment of Foot on 28 May 1857.

On 14 November 1861 he died at his home at Lyndhurst in the New Forest, and was buried in Saint Michael and All Angels churchyard. His friend and adjutant, General Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeny, placed in the church a large brass plate with an inscription reading ‘Lieut.-General Sir James Holmes Schoëdde, KCB, aged seventy-five years’.