Major-General Charles St. Quentin Outen Fullbrook-Leggatt CBE DSO MC (16 August 1889 − 29 May 1972) was a British Army officer who served in both the world wars.
[6] He was posted to his regiment's 1st Battalion, was promoted to lieutenant on 17 August 1911,[7] and served with distinction on the Western Front during the First World War, which began in the summer of 1914.
Promoted to battalion adjutant on 11 September 1914,[8] he gained one of the first Distinguished Service Orders (DSO) of the war, awarded in December 1914 for actions in late August.
[10] As a Regular Army officer, he remained in the army during the difficult interwar period, attending the Staff College, Camberley, from 1922 to 1923, alongside future generals such as John Evetts, Gerald Smallwood, Richard Wootten, Robert Money, Douglas Paige, George Beresford, John Martin, Charles Lane, Frank Simmons, Kenneth Gattie, Cecil Heydeman, Thomas Hutton and Douglas McArthur Hogg.
[4] He then served as an instructor at the Senior Officers' School, Sheerness, a post he held for over three years, from October 1936,[13] until the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.