Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Edward Hastings Medhurst, KCB, OBE, MC (12 December 1896 – 18 October 1954) was a First World War Royal Flying Corps pilot on the Western Front and later a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

After education at St Peter's School, York, Medhurst was awarded Royal Aero Club pilot certificate No.

[6] On 1 August 1919 he was awarded a permanent commission as a captain in the Royal Air Force and by 1925 had attended the RAF Staff College.

[6] His last appointment was as Chairman of the British Joint Services Mission to Washington, D.C. in the rank of air chief marshal.

III he was co-piloting exploded after taking Anti-Aircraft Artillery fire during an air drop mission during Operation Market Garden.