Charles Doughty - Wylie Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty - Wylie ( 23 July 1868 – 26 April 1915 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Doughty - Wylie was also awarded the Order of the Medjidie from the very Ottoman Government he later would fight against . Early life . A native of Suffolk , Doughty - Wylie was a 1889 graduate of the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . His military career included the Chitral Expedition ( 1895 ) , 1898 Occupation of Crete , the Mahdist War ( 1898 – 99 ) , the Second Boer War , the Boxer Rebellion ( 1900 ) and Somaliland ( 1903 – 04 ) where he commanded a unit of the Somaliland Camel Corps . Turkish Revolution . Colonel Doughty - Wylie was the British consul in Mersina , Ottoman Empire , during the Young Turk Revolution of 1909 . Richard Bell - Davies ( later a VC winner , then a lieutenant on the battleship HMS " Swiftsure " ) met him at the time and gives an account in his autobiography " Sailor in the Air " ( 1967 ) . Massacres of Armenia ns started along with the revolution , and Bell - Davies says that it was largely due to the efforts of Doughty - Wylie that these were halted in Mersina . Doughty - Wylie then went to Adana , forty miles away . He persuaded the local Vali ( Governor ) to give him a small escort of Ottoman troops and a bugler and with these managed to restore order . Mrs . Doughty - Wylie turned part of the dragoman ' s house into a hospital for wounded Armenians . Bell - Davies says that by the time an armed party from " Swiftsure " arrived , Doughty - Wylie had again almost stopped the massacre single - handedly . Newspaper reports of the period record that Doughty - Wylie was shot in the arm , while trying to prevent these massacres . Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty - Wylie was the recipient of the Order of the Medjidie from the Ottoman Government . He was awarded the Medjidie because of his work during the Balkan Wars when he served with the British Red Cross helping the Ottoman Military . He is the only soldier to have been awarded military honors by both the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire . First World War . Doughty - Wylie was 46 years old , and a lieutenant colonel in The Royal Welch Fusiliers , British Army when , " owing to his great knowledge of things Turkish " according to Bell - Davies , he was attached to General Sir Ian Hamilton ' s headquarters staff of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli . On 26 April 1915 , following the landing at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula , during which the brigadier general and the brigade major had been killed , Lieutenant Colonel Doughty - Wylie and another officer ( Garth Neville Walford ) organized and made an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd - el - Bahr on the Old Fort at the top of the hill . The enemy ' s position was very strongly entrenched and defended , but mainly due to the initiative , skill and great gallantry of the two officers the attack was a complete success . Both were killed in the moment of victory . Doughty - Wylie was shot in the face by sniper and died instantly . Doughty - Wylie is buried close to where he was killed . His grave is the only solitary British or Commonwealth war grave on the Gallipoli peninsula : The Turkish authorities moved the graves of all other foreign soldiers to the " V Beach " graves except for his . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon Castle , Gwynedd , Wales . Personal life . Doughty - Wylie , a married man , had an unconsummated affair with Gertrude Bell with whom he exchanged love letters from 1913 - 1915 until his death . Bell was an eminent English writer , traveller , political officer , administrator , and archaeologist who explored , mapped in the region of Syria , Mesopotamia , Asia Minor , and Arabia .