Major-General Charles Edward Anson Firth, CB, CBE, DSO (1902 – 13 October 1991) was a British Army officer.
He was the son of Major Edward William Anson Firth of the 69th Punjabis, who died in 1906.
[1][2] Firth was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment on 1 February 1923[3] and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1936 to 1937.
[4] After being promoted to major on 1 February 1940,[5] he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, in the Middle East in 1942 during the Second World War.
[7] After the war he became deputy director of personal services at the War Office in February 1946, commander of the Berlin Infantry Brigade in February 1949 and general officer commanding East Anglian District in April 1950.