Charles Branch (British Army officer)
Sir Charles Branch KCB DSO MC | |
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| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Grenadier Guards |
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Sir Charles Hector Diarmuid St John Branch KCB DSO MC (1886–1917) was a British Army officer.
Life and military career
The son of Ivo Branch of the Life Guards, he was born at Darjeeling, British Raj. Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, Branch was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1907.[1][2]
Branch served in the First World War in the Middle Eastern theatre, having spent time travelling in the Balkans outside of military service.[3][4] He died in battle on 11 June 1917 during an attack on a bridge at Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, fighting alongside T. E. Lawrence.[5]
He received the Distinguished Service Order in 1916.[1]
References
- ^ a b Obituary, The Times, April 1941
- ^ Liddell Hart, Basil (1992). History of the First World War. Papermac. ISBN 978-0-333-58261-9
- ^ Moberly, F. J. (1997) [1927]. The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914–1918. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents, Compiled at the Request of the Government of India, under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. IV. Part V: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917–18, North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918 (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press repr. ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 978-0-89839-290-6
- ^ Moberly, F. J. (1987) [1929]. Operations in Persia 1914–1919. History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum facsimile of the confidential 1929 ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 978-0-11-290453-3
- ^ Wilson, J. (1989). Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T.E. Lawrence. Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-11934-7 p. 412