Charles Sackville - West , 4th Baron Sackville Major - General Charles John Sackville - West , 4th Baron Sackville , ( 10 August 1870 – 8 May 1962 ) was a British Army general and peer who served throughout the First World War and reached the rank of major general . In 1919 , he was British Military Representative on the Supreme War Council and from 1920 to 1924 he was military attaché in Paris . He inherited his title on 28 January 1928 on the death of his brother , Lionel Edward Sackville - West , 3rd Baron Sackville . He served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey . Early life . Sackville - West was born in 1870 , the second son of Colonel the Hon . W . E . Sackville - West and Georgina Dodwell . Education . Sackville - West was educated at Winchester College , an independent school for boys in the English South Coast city of Winchester in Hampshire , followed by the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . Life and career . In 1889 , Sackville - West joined the King ' s Royal Rifle Corps as a subaltern and participated in the 1891 expedition to Manipur and the 1892 expedition to Burma . By the mid - 1890s , Sackville - West was serving as a staff officer in a number of posts , eventually being attached to the staff of General Sir Redvers Buller during the Second Boer War . He married Maude Cecilia Bell in 1897 , with whom he had one son and one daughter . His son Edward later became a noted author . In 1906 , Sackville - West was attached to the Staff College , Camberley and in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War , he was at the War Office . However , the need for experienced officers in the field prompted his movement to the Indian Army Corps on the Western Front until December 1915 , when he was given command of the 21st Infantry Brigade . He was also made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the same year . On 30 July 1916 , at the height of the Battle of the Somme , Sackville - West was wounded in an attack by a German bomber on his brigade headquarters . Evacuated to Britain , he had recovered by October , when he took over the 190th Infantry Brigade . Within days of this posting however Sackville - West was wounded in the jaw when a high - explosive shell detonated in the midst of his command group as he inspected the trenches in front of Hamel . Although wounded , dazed and partially buried , Sackville - West was able to reach the casualty clearing station unaided , and was again evacuated to Britain to recover . Returning to the Western Front for the third time in March 1917 , Sackville - West commanded the 182nd Infantry Brigade until November when he was made a major general and attached to the General Staff . In 1918 - 9 , as an ally of the CIGS Henry Wilson , he served on the Supreme War Council and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Order of the Bath by 1921 . Between 1920 and 1924 he was military attaché in Paris and from 1925 to his retirement in 1929 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey . In 1924 he married for a second time , to Mrs Anne Meredith Bigelow . In 1928 , on the death of his elder brother Lionel Sackville - West , Charles inherited his uncle ' s title of Baron Sackville and sat in the House of Lords until his death in 1962 . His son inherited the title .