Charles Woollcombe

Sir Charles Woollcombe
1917 portrait by Francis Dodd
Born	1857
Died	1934 (aged 76 or 77)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Second Boer War World War I
Commands held	Allahabad Brigade Garhwal Brigade Highland Division Eastern Command 2nd Army Central Force
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Louis Woollcombe KCB KCMG (1857–1934) was a British Army General during World War I.

Woollcombe originally served with the 1st Devon Militia, before obtaining a Regular commission in the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot in 1876. In 1877, he transferred to the 25th Regiment of Foot, which was retitled as the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1887. He took part in the Peshawar Valley expedition and the Khyber Line Force in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880 and in the Chin Lushai expedition in Burma between 1889 and 1890.

He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in Bengal from 1890 and then Brigade Major for the Chitral Relief Force in Buram in 1895. He then served on the North West Frontier in India becoming Assistant Adjutant General of the Mohmand Field Force in 1897. He then took part in the Tirah expedition from 1897 to 1898 and then became Assistant Adjutant General in India in 1899.

He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa and then became Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in India between 1901 and 1906.