Charles Kavanagh
| Sir Charles Kavanagh | |
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Pictured as Adjutant to the 6th Yeomanry Brigade in 1899.
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| Born | 25 March 1864 |
| Died | 11 October 1950 (aged 86) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
10th Royal Hussars 1st Cavalry Brigade 7th Cavalry Brigade 2nd Cavalry Division 5th Infantry Division Cavalry Corps |
| Battles/wars |
Second Boer War First World War |
| Awards |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Distinguished Service Order |
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, KCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO (25 March 1864 - 11 October 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps at the Battle of Amiens.
Born the son of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, The MacMorrough and Mary Frances Forde-Leathley and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Kavanagh was commissioned into the 3rd Dragoon Guards in February 1884 and transferred to the 10th Royal Hussars two weeks later. He was promoted to captain on 29 April 1891.
On the 12 June 1895 he was appointed Adjutant to the 6th Yeomanry Brigade (Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry and Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry); this posting ended on 16 February 1903. He served in the Second Boer War as Commanding Officer of the 10th Royal Hussars, and was promoted to major on 6 January 1900, and to brevet lieutenant-colonel on 29 November 1900. Following the end of the war in May 1902, Kavanagh returned to the United Kingdom in the SS Dunottar Castle, which arrived at Southampton in July 1902. He was mentioned in despatches by Lord Kitchener in his final despatch dated 23 June 1902.
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