Volunteer Long Service (India & the Colonies). GV issue (Corpl. C. Pemberton S. V. Lt. Horse)

Medal verification: The medal confirmed awarded per Indian Army Order 460 of 1913.

Charles McLeod Fraser Pemberton was born on 15 March 1873 at Meerut, India, the youngest son (of seven) of Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Pemberton, Royal Artillery. Young Pemberton was baptised at Morar, Gwalior on 2 June 1873 and by April 1891 was a Clerk living at Clyde House, Nutfield Road, Reigate, Surrey. He became a tea planter in the Sylhet Division of Assam, being an Assistant with Mookhamcherra Tea Company Ltd., Dullabcheera and in 1893 joined the Surma Valley Light Horse, being promoted Corporal in May 1900. Married at St Andrew's, Calcutta in November 1905, he was Superintendent of the East India & Ceylon Tea Company Ltd., with 2,618 acres and was its Manager by 1915. He died at Dullabcherra, Assam, British India on 14 March 1917. Charles Pemberton spent more then 20 years working in the Tea Estates of the Surma Valley, in Assam

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Condition: About GVF

Code: 21502