Major-General Charles Brian Wainwright, CB (17 August 1893 − 23 October 1968)[1] was a British Army officer.
[3] Remaining in the army during the difficult interwar period, Wainwright was an instructor at the School of Artillery, Larkhill for many years, and was promoted to major in 1932 and a colonel in 1939.
[3] Wainwright was granted the acting rank of major-general from 14 April 1943 on assuming command of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division.
[3] For his war services, Wainwright was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1946 New Year Honours,[7] and was later awarded the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross.
Described as a "prime mover in the scientific study of migrating wildfowl", he lobbied for the Abberton site to be declared a nature reserve and it was said that he individually ringed over 100,000 birds.