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Sir Charles Cooper Johnson (20 December 1827 – 7 December 1905) was a senior

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officer. Johnson was the sixth son of Sir Henry Johnson, 2nd Baronet, and a grandson of

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. He commissioned into the 33rd Bengal Native Infantry. He later transferred into the

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, which was amalgamated into the

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in 1861. He was promoted to Major on 7 June 1864. In 1877, while holding the rank of Colonel, he was made a

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. He was promoted to the rank of full General on 1 April 1894. Johnson was made

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in the

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