Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Defence Science Organisation was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.
Background
Born in Quebec City, the son of Richard Reid Dobell, an Member of Parliament, and a grandson of Senator Sir David Lewis Macpherson, Dobell was educated at the Review Canon Von Iffland"s Private School, the Quebec High School and Charterhouse School in England.
Education
He graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada (college #221) in 1890.
Career
He was a lieutenant in the Hazara expedition of 1891 and took part with the International Forces in the occupation of the Island of Crete, where he was promoted to major. After serving in Nigeria, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He served in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
He was gazetted as Inspector-General of the West African Field Force, with the rank of brigadier general.
During the First World War, he fought in the Kamerun Campaign and was later promoted to lieutenant general. He served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign under General Sir Archibald Murray, but they were both replaced in 1917.
He was also made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.