Reginald Schomberg

Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg (1880–1958) was a British Army officer and explorer, who served in Asia.

Family and education Schomberg was the son of Reginald Brodrick Schomberg (1848–1932) and Frances Sophia Schomberg (1839–1922), and a descendant of the physician Meyer Low Schomberg (1690–1761). He was educated at The Oratory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham (1892–8), then New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1901.

Military and diplomatic career Schomberg served mainly in Asia. His military career took him to India (1902–11), he served in the Malay States Guides (early 1910s). He went to the Mesopotamia campaign (1915) and the Sinai and Palestine campaign (1917), Malaya (1919), India (1922), and Ladakh (1923). He retired in 1927.

He also held several diplomatic posts. He was British consul-general in French establishments in India (1936–37, 1938–41); and consul-general for Portuguese India (from 1939). He was consular liaison officer, Persia (1942–3), and customs officer, Perso-Indian frontier (1943–4). From 1944 to 1945 he was colonel in Force 136 (part of the Special Operations Executive), China. and bar Royal Geographical Society's Gill memorial medal