Brigadier Charles Samuel Flanagan Carroll, OBE, MC (30 January 1923 - 1992) was a British soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas who led a bayonet charge of a Japanese position during the Second World War and fought communist insurgents in the jungle during the Malayan Emergency.
[1] Carroll was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1942 and served first, as was customary, in a British regiment, the Worcesters.
In 1945 he earned a Military Cross in Burma when he led a bayonet charge at Mindegon, near Mandalay.
[1] Carroll married Priscilla Puckle, sister of the actress Beth Rogan.
[3] After his retirement, Carroll was house governor of the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice in Farnham and did work for the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Haslemere.