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Charles Levinge Gregory

Charles Levinge Gregory
CB, CMG
Born 22 August 1870
Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Died 24 July 1944 (aged 73)
Minehead, Somerset, England,
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Indian Army
Years of service 1889–1923
Rank Major-General
Commands held 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse)
9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade
11th Cavalry Brigade
4th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade
Awards Order of St Michael and St George
Order of the Bath

Charles Levinge Gregory CB CMG (22 August 1870 – 24 July 1944) was an officer in the British Army and a Major-General in the British Indian Army.

After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Gregory was initially commissioned in the Royal Irish Fusiliers but soon after transferred to the Indian Army's 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse).

He served on campaigns on the North West Frontier and in the First World War, at first in France on the Western Front and then in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, during which he commanded the 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade and the 11th Cavalry Brigade. After the war he commanded the 4th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade in India before retiring in 1923.

Charles Levinge Gregory was born 22 August 1870 at Callan, County Kilkenny in Ireland, the son of Henry Charles Gregory and Charlotte Anne Stevenson. He went to Corrig School, in Kingstown, County Dublin and then to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in Berkshire, England.


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