Background
Dasher, Charles Lanier was born on July 11, 1900 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Charles Lanier and Eloise (Wilder) Dasher.
Dasher, Charles Lanier was born on July 11, 1900 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Charles Lanier and Eloise (Wilder) Dasher.
Student George Washington University, 1919-1920. Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1924. Graduate Field Artillery School, 1930, Command and General Staff College, 1940.
Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army, 1924, advanced through grades to major general, 1953. Successively instructor tactics, instructor gunnery, Executive officer Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1940-1943. Artillery officer 3d Armored Corps.
Camp Polk, Iowa, 1943.
Assistant artillery officer 19th Corps, 1943-1944. Commanding officer 32d Field Artillery Brigade, 1944-1945.
Artillery commander 75th Division Artillery, 1945. Corps artillery commander 18th Corps (airborne), 1945.
Commander Rome area Allied Commissioned, 1945-1947.
Military attache, Spain. 1947-1950; assistant division commander 8th Infantry Division, 1951-1952. 3d Infantry Division, 1952.
Division commander 24th Infantry Division, 1952-1953.
Deputy commander 5th Army, 1954-1955, United States Commander, Berlin, 1955-1957, Caribbean, 1958-1960.
Member Delta Tau Delta, Baronial Order Magna Charta.
Married Helen Catherine Rowzee, February 10, 1925. Children: Beverly Anne, Charlene Catherine.