Parchment Certificate of Education, First Class, awarded to 798 Militia Sgt Maj T Cheal, the Buffs Regiment, 26 Oct 1897.
Signed by Col Douglas Jones.
Printed and completed in manuscript in pen.
One of 13 documents relating to RSM Thomas Cheal, 1st and 3rd Bn the Buffs Regiment, 1883-1908.
RSM Cheal served in Malta, Singapore and India and was appointed Sergeant Major in 1895, and Regimental Sergeant Major, Depot, the Buffs in 1901. He also fought in the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, and the South Africa War, 1900-1901. 
From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.