Lieutenant-General Sir Charles John Stuart King KBE, CB (13 October 1890 – 7 January 1967) was an American-born British engineer and army officer.
[2] He later attended the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, passing out first in 1910 with the Sword of Honour and earning the Pollock Medal.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, King joined the British Expeditionary Force in France as Deputy Chief Engineer (1939-1940).
In 1941 he was Chief Engineer for Home Defences before being appointed to the newly created post of Engineer-in-Chief at the War Office (1941-1944), where his responsibilities included work on the Bolero plan.
[1] In 1944 he became the Prime Minister's personal representative to the South East Asia Command.