Charles James Briggs
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Briggs | |
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Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George |
KCMG (22 October 1865 – 27 November 1941)[1] was a British Army officer who held high command in World War I
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Military career
Born the son of
Imperial Light Horse and then a Mobile Column,[3] before transferring to the 6th Dragoons in July 1904.[2]
He was appointed commander of the Transvaal Volunteers in 1905 and took part in suppressing the
Salonika from October 1915 and XVI Corps (later redesignated as the British Salonika Army) from May 1916.[3]
He was chief of the British Military Mission to South Russia from February to June 1919 before retiring in February 1923.[3] In retirement he was colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 16 March 1926 to 31 December 1939.[9]
Decorations
These include:
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (military division) [K.C.B. cr. 1917]
- Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George[K.C.M.G. cr. 1918]
- Order of the White Eagle (Russia)
- Commander of the Legion of Honour (France)
- Grand Officer of the Order of the White Eagle with Swords (Serbia)[10]
- Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)[11]
- Queen's South Africa Medal 1899–1902 with 5 clasps
- King's South Africa Medal 1901–1902 with 2 clasps
- Natal Rebellion Medal 1906 with clasp '1906'
- 1914–1915 Star
- British War Medal 1914–1920
- Allied Victory Medal 1914–1919 with oak leaf
- Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Medal 1897
- War Cross with palm (Greece)[12]
- Medal of Military Merit, 1st class Greece[13]
References
- ^ a b ghgraham.orgSir Charles James Briggs 1865–1941
- ^ a b Centre for First World War Studies University of Birmingham Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ "No. 27460". The London Gazette. 1 August 1902. p. 4963.
- ^ "The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36821. London. 16 July 1902. p. 11.
- ^ "No. 27448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1902. pp. 4191–4194.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36926. London. 15 November 1902. p. 12.
- ^ "No. 27497". The London Gazette. 21 November 1902. p. 7534.
- ^ "1st King's Dragoon Guards". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "No. 31393". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1919. p. 7401.
- ^ "No. 30945". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 October 1918. p. 11951.
- ^ "No. 31465". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 July 1919. p. 9232.
- ^ "No. 31514". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 August 1919. p. 10611.
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