Charles Budworth

Major-General Charles Edward Dutton Budworth CB CMG CVO (3 October 1869 – 15 July 1921) was a British soldier who served as an artillery officer during the Second Boer War and World War I.[1][2]

Budworth was the son of Philip John Budworth, of Greensted Hall, Essex. His elder brother Richard Budworth played international rugby union football for England.

He was commissioned a second-lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 15 February 1889, promoted to lieutenant on 15 February 1892, and to captain on 29 March 1899. In October that year he was appointed Adjutant of the Honourable Artillery Company of London (HAC), and on 12 January 1900 he commissioned as a captain in the HAC company of the City of London Imperial Volunteers (CIV) bound for service in the Second Boer War. He left for South Africa the following month,[3] and returned with most of the corps in October the same year. The CIV was disbanded in December 1900, and he went back to regular service with the Royal Artillery.

During the First World War, he was General Sir Henry Rawlinson's senior artillery adviser, at IV Corps (October 1915 to March 1916) and at Fourth Army from May 1916 until the Armistice in November 1918.[4] He played a key role in the Allied Hundred Days Offensive perhaps most notably at the Battles of Hamel, Amiens and the final attack on the Hindenburg Line.[5]

In 1919 he was appointed to command 59th (2nd North Midland) Division which trained drafts for service in Egypt and the Black Sea until it was demobilised.[6]

He was ten times mentioned in dispatches.

He died in Simla, British India, and was buried in Simla Old Cemetery.[7]

Budworth married Winifred Nickalls, daughter of Sir Patteson Nickalls, but was widowed in 1914. He remarried Helen Blewitt, daughter of W. E. Blewitt, in 1918. They had two sons.

References

  1. ↑ ‘BUDWORTH, Maj.-Gen. Charles Edward Dutton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 10 Aug 2014
  2. ↑ Major-Gen. C. E. D. Budworth. The Times (London), Tuesday, Jul 19, 1921; pg. 13; Issue 42776. (362 words)
  3. ↑ "The War - The Imperial Yeomanry" The Times (London). Saturday, 3 February 1900. (36056), p. 12.
  4. ↑ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 4: The Army Council, GHQs, Armies, and Corps 1914–1918, London: HM Stationery Office, 1944/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-43-6, pp. 99 and 153.
  5. ↑ Gregory Blaxland, Amiens: 1918, London: Frederick Muller, 1968/Star, 1981, ISBN 0-352-30833-8, pp. 168 and 233.
  6. ↑ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8, p. 23.
  7. ↑ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1498741/BUDWORTH,%20CHARLES%20EDWARD%20DUTTON
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