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Charles W. H. Douglas

General Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas, GCB, ADC (17 July 1850 – 25 October 1914) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the First Boer War, the Suakin Expedition, the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first three months of the First World War but died from strain and overwork without having any meaningful influence on the outcome of the war.

Sir Charles Douglas

(1850-07-17)17 July 1850
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

25 October 1914(1914-10-25) (aged 64)
London, England

United Kingdom

1869–1914

Family[edit]

In 1887 Douglas married Ida de Courcy (née Gordon); they had no children.[1]

The British Army in the Great War