Major-General Charles Herbert Stainforth CB OBE (12 December 1914 – 22 March 2001) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Stainforth was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1936[1] and fought in World War II: he transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1948.

[2] He also fought in Korea being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services there in 1955.

[3] In 1965, as a Brigadier, he was appointed Chief of Staff at Southern Command.

[6][7] In 1969 he was invited to become Chairman of the Committee reviewing the UK Army Command Structure.