Charles Braithwaite WALLIS, British Consul-General. Operations in Mendi Country (despatches, thanks of Governor-in-Chief, West African medal and clasp); operations with British column in Liberian hinterland (African General Service Medal and clasp); awarded the silver medal and certificate of Royal Humane Society for saving life in West Africa, 4 December. Fellow of the Geological Society; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Background
WALLIS, Charles Braithwaite was born in 1873. Son of late Charles Woodward Wallis, M. A., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Gertrude, 3rd daughter of late E. Edmonds, Justice of the Peace, D.L., of Berryfield Hall, near Bradford, Wiltshire.
Education
Private tutors; Shrewsbury. Surbiton; Military College, Oxford.
Career
Joined 4th Manchester Regiment, 1894. Captain, 1898; appointed to Sierra Leone Frontier Force, 1898. Sherbro and Protectorate Expeditions.
Commanded a column; operations in Mendi Country (despatches, thanks of Governor-in-Chief, West African medal and clasp). Acted as Commissioner in Sierra Leone part of 1899. Transferred to 1st battalion The Cameronians, 1899.
Served in India, 1899-1901. Assistant Commissioner in Sierra Leone, 1901. Commissioner, 1905; entered Middle Temple, 1905.
Served under Foreign Office as acting British Consul for Liberia, 1905. Operations with British column in Liberian hinterland (African General Service Medal and clasp). Consul for Liberia, 1906.
Consul-General for Liberia to reside at Monrovia, 1908. Member of the African Society. Awarded the silver medal and certificate of Royal Humane Society for saving life in West Africa, 4 December 1901.
Justice of the Peace, Siena Leone. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles); His Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General for French Western Africa and the Sudan since 1909.
Membership
Fellow of the Geological Society. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Clubs: United Empire, Royal Societies, United Service.