Brigadier Charles Esmond de Wolff CB CBE (25 November 1893 − 12 October 1986) was a British Army officer.
[4] In 1919 he was appointed Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (ADOS) in South Russia during the Russian Civil War and was promoted acting lieutenant-colonel in February 1919.
[7] For his service in this campaign he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in November 1919[8] for having expedited a successful mission to rescue Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (sister of Tsar Nicholas II and cousin of George V of the United Kingdom) from Bolshevik occupied Crimea.
It not only reflected the need to create a depot to support a vital stores range of the rapidly mechanising Army but also to replace inadequate and vulnerable storage in Woolwich.
[13] After a short sojourn in France as an ADOS at General Headquarters he returned in November 1939 and was promoted colonel and ordnance officer 1st class in the same month.