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Personal data

• Name SCHOOLING
• Initials CH
• First name THE REV. CECIL HERBERT
• Place of birth Wandsworth Common, London
• Country England
• Family Third son of Frederick and Lily Schooling, of "Hilly Dene," Bromley, Kent; his brother, Eric Charles Schooling, was Captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and KIA 31/10/1914;
• Education Tonbridge School and Pembroke College Cambridge; elected to the Cambridge University Guild around 02nd February 1902; gained his BA in 1906 and his MA in 1910; Wells Theological College 1906-1907: ordained as Deacon in 1907 ands as a Priest in 1908
• Profession Priest
• Extra info Commemorated in the Parish Great War Roll of Honour in St John’ Croydon; Church bell ringer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 5 December 1916
• Rank Chaplain 4th Class
• Regiment and unit Royal Army Chaplains' Department attd. 122nd Bde. / 41st Div.
• Other data related to military career Attached to the 122nd Infantry Brigade; mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette of 7 December 1917
  
  

Death

• Wounded 20 June, Dikkebus
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 21 June 1917
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 21

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