His father, Lieutenant Colonel C Lewis Theodore Schoëdde, had entered the 60th in the year 1780, and left it as lieutenant-colonel in 1805.

[c] 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’.

And again, in his dispatch from Tching-Kiang-Foo dated 25 July 1842, he used the following words: ‘I cannot too strongly express my approval of the spirited and judicious way in which Major-General Schoëdde fulfilled my orders’.

[1] His name was included in the vote of thanks from both Houses of Parliament for the ‘energy, ability, and gallantry with which the various services had been performed’; and having been made ADC to the Queen on 25 November 1841, and colonel in the army, he was, on the 23 December 1842, made major-general in India, Knight Commander of the Bath, and received the medal for the China campaign.

[6] On 14 November 1861 he died at 'Elcombe', his home at Lyndhurst in the New Forest, and was buried in Saint Michael and All Angels churchyard; in the church his old friend and adjutant, General Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeny, placed a very large and handsome brass plate to the memory of ‘Lieut.-General Sir James Holmes Schoëdde, KCB, aged seventy-five years’.