Charles Geoffrey Wylie OBE (24 December 1919 – 18 July 2007) was a

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

lieutenant colonel who served with 10th Gurkha Rifles and was the organising secretary to the

1953 British Mount Everest expedition The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. ...

. Wylie was also an early member of the

Army Mountaineering Association The British Army Mountaineering Association (AMA) is the governing body for climbing competitions and the representative body for mountaineering in the British Army. It is a member of the British Mountaineering Council and is the largest climbing ...

, membership number 142, joining in April 1958 shortly after the Association's inauguration in 1957. He was appointed OBE in the

1995 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1995 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other co ...

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British Indian Army officers English mountain climbers Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1919 births 2007 deaths Indian Army personnel of World War II Royal Gurkha Rifles officers {{British-Army-bio-stub