Charles Levinge Gregory Charles Levinge Gregory was an officer in the British Army and a major - general in the British Indian Army . After graduating from the Royal Military Academy 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 Meerut Cavalry Brigade in India before retiring in 1923 . Early life . 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 Academy Sandhurst , in Berkshire , England . Military career . Gregory graduated from Sandhurst in 1889 and was commissioned second - lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers , part of the British Army . In 1891 now a lieutenant he transferred to the 19th Lancers ( Fane ' s Horse ) in the British Indian Army . In 1895 Gregory was attached to Burma Military Police and was the Assistant Commandant of their Bhamo Battalion in 1899 . Gregory married Irma Sara Harran , on 30 October 1900 . Then in February 1901 he was promoted to captain . In 1907 he became the Staff Captain , of the 1st ( Peshawar ) Division , based at Cherat , during which he was promoted to major . In 1908 he took part in the Bazar Valley Campaign , for which he was mentioned in dispatches . Following which he became the Brigade Major for the Bannu Brigade . Then in September 1909 he became a Deputy Adjutant Quarter Master General , and took part in the 1911 Delhi Durbar . His next military position was as a General Staff Officer , Headquarters , Southern Army between 1912 – 1914 , before taking over command of the 19th Lancers ( Fane ' s Horse ) . At the start of the First World War the 19th Lancers , assigned to the 2nd ( Sialkot ) Cavalry Brigade , were sent to the Western Front in France . He was promoted to lieutenant - colonel in November 1915 . In 1916 he was given command of the 9th ( Secunderbad ) Cavalry Brigade , in the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division , seeing action at the Somme , Bazentin Ridge , Flers - Courcelette and Cambrai . For which he was mentioned in dispatches four times . In 1917 he was promoted to brevet colonel . In 1918 all the Indian cavalry formations in France were sent to serve in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign . On arrival Gregory was given command of the 11th Cavalry Brigade , in the 4th Cavalry Division . The brigade fought at Megiddo and took part in the capture of Damascus . In June 1919 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George . In that November having reverted to his peacetime rank of colonel he was again promoted to brigadier - general and invested as a Companion , Order of the Bath . In 1922 he was promoted to major - general and the commander of the Meerut Cavalry Brigade , his last position before retiring in 1923 . Charles Levinge Gregory died on 24 July 1944 at a Nursing Home in Minehead , Somerset , England .