Major general Sir Christopher Earle Welby-Everard KBE CB DL (9 August 1909 – 10 May 1996) was a senior British Army officer and the last British commander of the Nigerian Army.

[1] He was educated at Charterhouse School and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1931.

On 30 April 1932 he commissioned as a second lieutenant from the General List, Territorial Army into the Lincolnshire Regiment (with seniority backdated to 29 September 1930).

[2] Promoted to lieutenant on 29 September 1933,[3] he served in the 2nd Battalion, seeing action in the Arab revolt in Palestine, before working as adjutant at the Regimental Depot in Lincoln between 1937 and 1939, and receiving a promotion to captain on 29 September 1938.

[5] On 11 March 1944 Welby-Everard was promoted to the acting rank of lieutenant colonel and appointed as Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, which was to participate in the invasion of Normandy.