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General Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas, GCB, ADC (17 July 1850 – 25 October 1914) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the First Boer War, the Suakin Expedition, the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first three months of the First World War but died from strain and overwork without having any meaningful influence on the outcome of the war.[1]
Timeline of events (from source material contemporary with the Great War from a British perspective).
1914
| 6 April | Replaced Field Marshal Sir John French as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.[2] |
| 30 June | Appointed Aide-de-Camp General to The King.[3] |
| 25 October | Died from ill health, strain and overwork at his home at Eaton Square, London.[4] |
References
- ↑ "Charles W. H. Douglas". Wikipedia: The free encyclopaedia. Accessed 21 January, 2018
- ↑ "No. 28819". The London Gazette. 7 April 1914. p. 3002.
- ↑ "No. 28845". The London Gazette. 30 June 1914.
- ↑ Spiers, Edward (2004). "Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
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