- Charles Foulkes (British Army officer)
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Not to be confused with Charles Foulkes (Canadian general).
Olympic medal record Men's field hockey Bronze 1908 London Team Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes (1 February 1875 – 6 May 1969) was a Royal Engineers officer in the British Army and also a British international field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in the bronze medal-winning team. He saw service in World War I and, following the first German use of gas on 22 April 1915 at Ypres, became Britain's chief advisor on gas warfare. He also advised on the use of gas to suppress the uprisings in Afghanistan (1919) and Waziristan (1920), but gas was never actually deployed in these conflicts.
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Biography
Foukles was born in British India in 1875.
He received a commission in 1894 into the British Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.
- Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1897–1899
- Boer War, 1899–1900
Between 1902 and 1904 he was assistant commander on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate. During this period he was active in the Kano-Sokoto expedition which brought the Emirs under British control.
- Appointed Capt and married Dorothea Oakey, 1904
Returning to the British Isles, he took command of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland from 1904 to 1909.
- Command of 31 (Fortress) Company, Ceylon, 1909–1912
- Command of 'L' Company, Royal Engineers' Depot, Chatham, 1913
First World War
Foulkes was appointed Major in 1914 and spent the war on the Western Front. At the First Battle of Ypres (1914) he was Commander, 11 (Field) Company RE. Appointed "Gas Adviser" in 1915.
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- Command of Special Brigade, and Director of Gas Services, 1917
- President of the Chemical Warfare Committee, 1918
- North-West Frontier Province, India, 1919–1920
- Afghan War 1919
- Waziristan 1919-1920
- Appointed Lt Col, Commander, Royal Engineers in Fermoy, Ireland and Director of Irish Propaganda, 1921
- Commander, Royal Engineers in Northumbria, 1922
- Appointed Col and Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Command, 1924
- Chief Engineer, Aldershot Command, 1926–1930
In 1928 he was Aide-de-camp to the King.
- Appointed Maj Gen, 1930
- Retired, 1930
- Publication of Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade, 1934
- Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1937–1945
- Publication of Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers, 1939
- Awarded Gold Medal of the Institution of Royal Engineers, 1964
- Died in Hampshire, 1969
Publications
- Foulkes, Charles Howard (2001) [First published Blackwood & Sons, 1934]. "Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade. Published by Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-84342-088-0.
- Foulkes, C.H., Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers (C Arthur Pearson, London, 1939)
Notes and references
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Categories:- 1875 births
- 1969 deaths
- British Army generals
- Royal Engineers officers
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Afghan War
- British military personnel of the Irish War of Independence
- British field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- British military personnel of the Waziristan Campaign
- British military personnel of the Kano-Sokoto Expedition
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
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