Charles Kavanagh
Sir Charles Kavanagh | |
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.jpg) Pictured as Adjutant to the 6th Yeo. Brigade in 1899. | |
| Born | 25 March 1864 |
| Died | 11 October 1950 |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands | 10th Royal Hussars 1st Cavalry Brigade 7th Cavalry Brigade 2nd Cavalry Division 5th Infantry Division 1st Army Corps Cavalry Corps |
| Battles/wars | Second Boer War World War I |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Distinguished Service Order |
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh KCB KCMG CVO DSO (25 March 1864 - 11 October 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps at the Battle of Amiens.
Military career
Born the son of Rt. Hon. Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, The MacMorrough and Mary Frances Forde-Leathley and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst,[1] Kavanagh was commissioned into the 3rd Dragoon Guards in February 1884 and transferred to the 10th Royal Hussars two weeks later.[2]
On the 12th June 1895 [London Gazette, June 11, 1895, p3319] he was appointed Adjutant to the 6th Yeomanry Brigade (Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry and Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry) and this ended on the 16th of February 1903. He served in the Second Boer War as Commanding Officer of the 10th Royal Hussars, and was promoted a brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1900.[3] After returning to the UK, he went on to be Commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot Command in 1909.[1] He fought in World War I as commander of the 7th Cavalry Brigade (part of the British Expeditionary Force) from 1914, as General Officer Commanding 2nd Cavalry Division from April 1915 and as General Officer Commanding 5th Division from July 1915.[2] After that he served as Commander of the I Corps from 1916 and then as Commander of the Cavalry Corps from 1917 leading the Corps to success at the Battle of Amiens and remaining in post until the end of the War.[1] He retired in 1920.[1]
In retirement he became Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor.[1]
Family
In 1895 he married Mary Perry; they had two daughters.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e The Peerage.com
- ^ a b c Boer War
- ^ "No. 27359". The London Gazette. 27 September 1901.
- 1864 births
- 1950 deaths
- British Army World War I generals
- People educated at Harrow School
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- 3rd Dragoon Guards officers
- 10th Royal Hussars officers
- Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst