Major-General Charles Harford Bowle-Evans (19 October 1867 – 23 August 1942), born Charles Harford Evans, was an officer in the Indian Medical Service. Bowle-Evans was the son of John Bowle-Evans. He was commissioned surgeon- lieutenant in the IMS on the Bengal Establishment in January 1894. He served in Waziristan in 1894–1895 and

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, was promoted surgeon-

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in January 1897, served on the North-West Frontier in 1897–1898, and in the

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in China in 1900. He was promoted

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in 1905 and lieutenant-colonel in 1913. During the First World War, he served in Europe from 1914 to 1915, for which he was appointed

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(CMG) in 1915. He served with the

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in Persia in 1919 as a temporary colonel, for which he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 1920. He was promoted substantive colonel in 1921 and major-general in 1923, when he was appointed director of medical services to HM Forces in India. He retired in October the same year due to poor health'' The Times'', 16 October 1923 and settled in

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, Gloucestershire. He married Ellen Stevenson, daughter of Major-General William Flack Stevenson of the

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, on 22 October 1902 at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Woolston, Southampton.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowle-Evans, Charles 1867 births 1942 deaths Indian Medical Service officers British Indian Army generals Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition British people in colonial India