(1877-01-08)8 January 1877 Glasgow, Scotland[1][2]
Died
4 February 1946(1946-02-04) (aged 69) Surrey, England[3]
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1893–1922
Rank
Brigadier General
Battles/wars
World War I
Awards
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order
Brigadier General John CharterisCMG DSO (January 1877 – February 1946) was a British Army officer. During World War I he was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. In later life he was a Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire.
^Tucker, Spencer (7 December 2018). European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-68425-9.
^"Life story: John Charteris | Lives of the First World War".
^"Life story: John Charteris | Lives of the First World War".
Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire. Charteris was born on 8 January 1877, probably in Glasgow, son of Matthew Charteris (1840–97), Regius Professor of Materia...
Charteris is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Charteris (d. 1346), Scottish nobleman and ambassador to England Archibald...
on a speech given by Brigadier General JohnCharteris at the National Arts Club the previous evening. Charteris was then a Conservative MP for Glasgow...
Clan Charteris is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The claimed origin of the name Charteris is that it is from the city of Chartres in France...
dead soldiers for fat to make soap and other products. After the war JohnCharteris, the former head of army intelligence, was reported to have claimed...
corroboratory evidence that is known to exist comes from Brigadier-General JohnCharteris' memoir At G.H.Q. (published 1931), which implies that the story of...
and John Batty Tuke. His photograph is held by the National Portrait Gallery in London. Charteris was the younger brother of Archibald Charteris, theologian...
weather improved. In Field Marshal Earl Haig (1929), Brigadier-General JohnCharteris, the BEF Chief of Intelligence from 1915 to 1918, wrote that Careful...
1526 a feud arose with the Clan Charteris. It is recorded in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials of Scotland that JohnCharteris of Amisfield, along with his brother...
Musgrave; pledge, as for Oliver Sinclair. JohnCharteris; keeper, William Porter Robert Charteris; keeper, John Wharton John Maxwell, brother of Lord Maxwell;...
office and Charteris of Kinfauns was appointed instead. The city refused to acknowledge Charteris and barred the gates against him. Charteris along with...
and in 1552 JohnCharteris was murdered by the Ruthvens on the High Street (Royal Mile) in Edinburgh. The property passed from the Charteris family to the...
Haig's intelligence chief Brigadier JohnCharteris was fudging intelligence estimates, which soon led to Charteris' removal. This whistle-blowing was apparently...
long. Some say he married the heiress of Charteris of Kinfauns and took from her the name Chartres or Charteris, and built a castle. Certainly, he adopted...
previous works by Dewar & Boraston (1922), George Arthur (1928) and JohnCharteris (1929). He stressed Haig's strong and upright character, as if he were...
Society to him. His father was also friendly with Frances Horner, wife of Sir John Horner, a longtime friend of Gladstone who lived at Mells Manor in Somerset...
Evelyn Charteris (b. 27 Sep 1887, d. 31 Mar 1960) Colin Charteris (b. 1 Jun 1889, d. 27 Dec 1892) Lady Mary Pamela Madeline Sibell Charteris (b. 24 Oct...
novelist Hugo Charteris, Ann Charteris the wife of Ian Fleming, and Mary Rose Charteris. The siblings were the grandchildren of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl...
in 1951. On April 26 the next year, in California, Long married Leslie Charteris, a British novelist best known for his works chronicling the adventures...
generals. One of these was Haig himself, and another was Brigadier-General JohnCharteris, Haig's intelligence chief, who was replaced in January 1918. By the...
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