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Charles Metcalfe (British Army officer)

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Died
  
1912

Rank
  
Major-General

Years of service
  
1874-1910


Service/branch
  
British Army

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
Charles Metcalfe

Charles Metcalfe (British Army officer) Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor KCB CSI CIE as

Commands held
  
2nd Bn the Rifle Brigade 6th Division

Major-General Charles Theophilus Evelyn Metcalfe CB (7 February 1856 - 1912) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division.

Charles Metcalfe (British Army officer) Charles Metcalfe 1st Baron Metcalfe Wikipedia

Military career

Educated at Malvern Wells, Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Metcalfe was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1874 and took part in the Burma expedition in 1886 and then joined the Tochi Field Force on the North West Frontier of India in 1897. He served as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade during the Second Boer War taking part in the Siege of Ladysmith and then became Brigadier-General commanding the Troops in Mauritius in 1902. He was appointed General Officer Commanding 6th Division in Southern Ireland in 1909. Metcalfe retired in 1910.

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