Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Noel Frank Broad KCB DSO (29 December 1882[1] – 23 March 1976) was a British Army General during the Second World War.

[2] He served in South Africa 1901-02 as an officer of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.

[3] Broad was commissioned in 1904[4] into the Cambridge University Volunteers, then into the Royal Field Artillery in May 1905[1] and went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1914.

[5] He also served in the First World War in France and Belgium, mostly on the staff, to which he had been seconded in April 1915.

[5] He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for the Eastern Army in India in 1940: in that capacity he welcomed the 7th Armoured Brigade back from Burma:[8] he retired in 1942.