General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 February 1876 – 21 October 1955) was a British Army officer and later Governor of Malta.
[3] Serving in the 2nd Battalion of his regiment, he was in early 1900 posted to South Africa for active service in the Second Boer War.
Together with 1030 officers and men of the battalion, he left Southampton on the SS Bavarian in March 1900,[4] and on arriving in South Africa was part of the 17th Brigade, 8th Division.
[1][7] In 1936 Bonham-Carter was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta following the death of General Sir David Campbell.
[1][11] He was appointed Colonel of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1936, a post he held until 1946.