Charles Macpherson Dobell

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell, KCB, CMG, DSO (22 June 1869 – 17 October 1954) was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.

He was a lieutenant in the Hazara expedition of 1891 and took part with the International Forces in the occupation of the island of Crete, where he was promoted to major.

After serving in Nigeria, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in September 1907.

[2] He was gazetted as Inspector-General of the West African Field Force, with the rank of brigadier general.

He served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign under General Sir Archibald Murray, but they were both replaced in 1917.