Lieutenant General Sir Charles James Briggs, KCB, KCMG (22 October 1865 – 27 November 1941)[1] was a British Army officer who held high command in World War I.

[2] He was commissioned into the 1st King's Dragoon Guards on 30 January 1886[3] and served as aide-de-camp to the general officer commanding (GOC) Egypt from 1892 to 1893.

[5] Following the end of the war in June 1902, he left Cape Town on the SS Sicilia and returned to Southampton in late July.

[6] For his services during the war, he received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the South African Honours list published on 26 June 1902.

[7] Reported to be medically unfit for foreign service after his return from the war, he was on 1 November 1902 appointed in command of a provisional regiment of Lancers, stationed at Ballincollig.