Major-General Sir Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell, (6 August 1881 – 27 January 1958), known by his middle name Dashwood,Townend, Peter (ed.) (1965), ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'' (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd), 18th ed., vol. 1, p. 655 was a senior officer in the

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Early life and family

Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell was born on 6 August 1881, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Dashwood Strettell (1845–1933), of

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in Kent, and his wife Harriette Elizabeth ''née'' Batho (died 1884),"Strettell, Major-General Sir C. B. Dashwood"
''Who Was Who'' (online edition), Oxford University Press, April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2016. daughter of William Fothergill Batho (1828–1886), a civil engineer, of

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in Surrey. He had a younger brother, Arnold William Cunninghame (1884–1888), and two half-siblings by his father's second marriage to Hortense Augusta (died 1951), daughter of Francis Levien, secretary to the London Stock Exchange: Doris Eileen (born 1892) and Colonel Eric Francis Dashwood, (1894–1970). His father entered the Indian Army in 1862, serving successively with the Connaught Rangers and the 190th Regiment. He fought in the Abyssinian Campaign, before working for a year in the Bengal staff Corps. He was in the Kurram Column 1878–79, the Waziri Expedition of 1881 and the Takht Sulliman Expedition of 1891. In 1922, Strettell married Margery Gillian de Hane (died 1978), daughter of Herbert Henry Brown, ; they had a son, James Dashwood (born 1924), who served as a captain in the Royal Artillery.

Career

Following schooling at

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and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Strettell was commissioned as a

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on the unattached list on 20 January 1900 "with a view to isappointment on the Indian Staff Corps".''The London Gazette''
19 January 1900 (issue 27155), p. 362 On 22 April 1901, he entered the Indian Staff Corps with the same rank, before being transferred to the Indian Army and promoted to Lieutenant the following May.
The Half-Yearly Army List: January 1939
', 1939 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office), p. 51 He served with the 13th Rajputs in 1901 and the

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in 1902 during the Waziristan Campaign of 1901–02. Promotion to the rank of captain on 20 January 1909 was followed by service in the

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, during which time he took part in the Nmai-Hka Expedition between 1912 and 1913. Strettell fought in World War I. He was based in England when the war began and so raised the service squadron of the 6th Dragoons, which he commanded as a temporary major between October 1914 and June 1915 and was made a full major on the first day of September 1915. The following February, he was posted to Mesopotamia; he served as a brigade major in the

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between December 1917 and April 1919, a deputy assistant quarter master general in India between June and November 1919, and a general staff officer in India between December 1919 and September 1920. Strettell was then appointed brigade major in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, but relinquished his post in December 1921. Having been a

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lieutenant-colonel since 3 June 1919, he was appointed to the full rank on 25 April 1924 and a colonel on 1 November of that year (with seniority to the previous June). Having been commandant of the

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between 1924 and 1928, Strettell served as an assistant adjutant general in India between July 1928 and July 1929, a brigade commander from then until April 1932 and a brigadier general on the Indian Staff until December 1934. On 26 August 1934, he was promoted to major-general, and appointed deputy quarter master general and director of movements in India between July 1935 and February 1936. He was director of the organisation in India from then until November 1936, when he became commander of the Peshawar District. He retired in 1940, although he was brought back into active service as a group commandant of the prisoner of war camps in 1941. He was then director of demobilisation and reconstruction in Indian (1941–43), before retiring for the last time in 1944. Strettell was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1935 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1940."Sir Dashwood Strettell", ''Times'' (London), 29 January 1958, p. 10 In his retirement, Strettell served on a number of boards, including the Council of the Asian Society, the Governing body of Wellington College (1947–56) and the Punjab Frontier Force Executive Committee (Chairman between 1951 and 1954). He died on 27 January 1958.

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