Major-General Charles Christopher Fowkes CBE DSO MC CPM (4 December 1894 – 1 July 1966) was an officer in the British Army during the Second World War.
The citation for his MC, appearing in The London Gazette in September 1918, reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.
Under a heavy enemy attack on his company he stuck to his work after being early wounded, and under very trying circumstances set splendid example to his men.
[3] Fowkes was highly critical of fascism; during the 1930s he criticised both Hitler's Nazi government and Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy.
[7] From then until December, fighting in horrendous terrain through the monsoon (because African soldiers were thought to be less susceptible to malaria - which proved to be the case),[8] Tales from the King's African Rifles by John Nunneley, 2000 the division fought in the notorious Kabaw Valley and cleared the west bank of the Chindwin river establishing three bridgeheads for Fourteenth Army on the other side.