Charles Hadden

Sir Charles Hadden
Born 1854
Died 1924 (aged 69 or 70)
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Major-General
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Sir Charles Frederick Hadden KCB (1854–1924) was a British Army officer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance.

Military career

Hadden was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873.[1] He was appointed Chief Inspector at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich in 1893 and then became a Member of the Ordnance Committee and an Associate Member of Explosives Committee in 1901.[1]

He was made Commandant of the Ordnance College and Director of Artillery in 1904 before moving on to be Master-General of the Ordnance in 1907.[1] In that capacity he was a member of a special committee set up by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to exploit aerial construction in 1909.[2] He was appointed President of Ordnance Board and Royal Artillery Committee in 1913.[1]

He lived at Rossway near Berkhamsted.[3]

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Sir James Wolfe-Murray
Master-General of the Ordnance
19071913
Succeeded by
Sir Stanley von Donop
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