Lieutenant General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, KCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO (25 March 1864 – 11 October 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps during the First World War, most notably at the Battle of Amiens in 1918.

He received his education at Harrow School before going on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1882, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 3rd Dragoon Guards of the British Army in February 1884,[2] although he transferred to the 10th Hussars just two weeks later.

[5] He served in the Second Boer War, which began in October 1899, as commanding officer (CO) of the 10th Hussars, and was promoted to major in January 1900,[6] and then to the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel in November of that year.

[1] Following the end of the war in May 1902, Kavanagh, now nicknamed Major Push-Along by the men under his command,[1] returned to the United Kingdom in the "SS Dunottar Castle", which arrived at Southampton in July 1902.

Shortly afterwards he took over the 7th Cavalry Brigade and departed with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) for service in France, where he would serve with distinction, most notably at the First Battle of Ypres.

[1] Holding this post until March 1916, where he was very active in the front lines and frequently seeing to the wellbeing of his men, he then received promotion to temporary lieutenant-general in April[14] and took command of I Corps from Sir Hubert Gough.