Brigadier General John William Schneider

He was born in 1824 and entered the Bombay Army in 1840. He was in a number of campaigns (Mahratta War 1844-45; the Indian Mutiny 1857 and the Abyssinian War in 1868). He was Judge Advocate General from 1868-72 before becoming Resident in Aden from 1872-77. He then commanded a Division in the Bombay Army 1877-82. He became a General in 1888 and some time along the line he got his ‘K’. He died in 1903.