Major General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee, KBE, CB, CMG (11 November 1867 – 28 March 1956) was a Canadian-born officer in the British Army, who served as General Officer Commanding Singapore and Malaya Command.
[3] He was a nephew of General Sir Charles van Straubenzee, Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and Governor of Malta.
He joined the Royal Artillery and served with the 4th Ashanti expedition (1895–96) before returning to Canada as a professor on the RMC staff from 1898 to 1903,[2] with the local rank of major from 18 August 1898, and was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 27 February 1902.
He was awarded the French Croix de guerre,[7] and, after being promoted in August 1915 to the temporary rank of brigadier general,[8] was Inspector-General of the Royal Artillery from 1917 to 1918.
She was a niece of Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet and the sister of Mrs Frederick Edmund Meredith.