Major-General Charles Edward Lawrie (1864 – 12 April 1953) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at

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, Eton College and the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

, Lawrie was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 15 February 1884. He saw action with the Jebu Expedition in Nigeria in 1892, the

Dongola Expedition The Mahdist War ( ar, الثورة المهدية, ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided On ...

in 1896 and the

Nile Expedition The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–85), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to the Sudan to help Egyptians evacuate from Sudan af ...

in 1898 before service in the Second Boer War in 1899. He went on to be Director, Royal Artillery for 19th Division and then Brigadier, Royal Artillery with

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before becoming General Officer Commanding 63rd (Royal Naval) Division in February 1917 on the

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during the First World War. He commanded the division at the Battle of Arras in April 1917 when a German advance was repulsed but at considerable cost to the division. His youngest son was the cricketer

Percy Lawrie Percy Edward Lawrie (12 December 1902 — 2 February 1988) was an English first-class cricketer. Education and first-class cricket The son of Major-General Charles Lawrie, he was born at Kensington in December 1902. He was educated at Eton ...

.District intelligence. ''Grantham Journal''. 8 September 1928. p. 2

References

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