", was an English Royal Flying Corps officer and a traveller and adventurer in Africa who masterminded the Court Treatt Expedition 1924–1926, the first successful attempt to drive a motor car from Cape Town to Cairo.

[1] Chaplin Court Treat was born in Kensington, London on 13 September 1888, the son of London businessman Richard Court Treatt by his wife Florence, grew up in Elstead Mill, Elstead, Surrey, and attended Westminster School.

At the outset of the First World War he enlisted in the infantry with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and fought initially in France before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915.

He flew missions as an observer until he was injured in a crash in 1916 which killed the pilot.

Chaplin was employed with a survey team planning and mapping for the construction of airfields for the southern portion of the Trans-African air route.