Brigadier-General Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (19 November 1867 – 11 April 1917) was a British and Egyptian Army officer who served in the Mahdist War and the First World War, he was killed in action on 11 April 1917, while commanding the 8th Cavalry Brigade, on the second day of the Battle of Arras.

[1] He is the only foreigner to receive the Russian Imperial Order of St. George Cross, — the highest military order, in both fourth and third class, for his bravery in First World War The son of Francis Bulkeley Johnson, he was born in 1867.

[6] On 19 August 1911, at 43 years of age, Bulkeley-Johnson was appointed as the commanding officer of the Royal Scots Greys.

For his exploits he has been awarded the two Crosses of the Russian Order of St. George[8] — which makes him the only Allied Officer during WWI ever to achieve such a level of recognition.

On 11 April 1917, during the Battle of Arras, British infantry were pinned down in front of the village of Monchy under very heavy machine-gun fire from the north ridge of Scarpe.