Charles Howard Foulkes
Major General Charles Howard Foulkes (1875-1969) was an engineer in the British Army . He saw service in World War I and, following the first German use of gas on 22 April 1915 at Ypres, became Britain's chief advisor on gas warfare . He also advised on the use of gas to suppress the uprisings in Afghanistan (1919) and Waziristan (1920), but mercifully gas was never deployed in these conflicts.
Biography
Born in India , 1875
Commissioned into the British Army as 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers , 1894
Sierra Leone , West Africa, 1897-1899
Boer War , 1899-1900
Assistant commander on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission , Northern Nigeria, 1902-1904
Kano-Sokoto expedition , Nigeria 1903
Appointed Capt and married Dorothea Oakey, 1904
Command of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland , 1904-1909
Command of 31 (Fortress) Company, Ceylon , 1909-1912
Command of 'L' Company, Royal Engineers' Depot, Chatham , 1913
Appointed Major, 1914
Western Front , World War I , 1914-1918
Commander, 11 (Field) Company, First Battle of Ypres 1914
Appointed Gas Adviser, 1915
Command of Special Brigade , and Director of Gas Services, 1917
President of the Chemical Warfare Committee, 1918
North West Frontier Province , India, 1919-1920
Appointed Lt Col, Commander, Royal Engineers in Fermoy , Ireland and Director of Irish Propaganda, 1921
Commander, Royal Engineers in Northumbria, 1922
Appointed Col and Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Command, 1924
Chief Engineer, Aldershot Command, 1926-1930
Aide-de-camp to the King 1928
Appointed Maj Gen, 1930
Retired, 1930
Publication of Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade , 1934
Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers , 1937-1945
Publication of Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers , 1939
Awarded Gold Medal of the Institution of Royal Engineers , 1964
Died in Hampshire , 1969
Source : Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Publications
Foulkes, C.H., Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade (W Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1934)
Foulkes, C.H., Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers (C Arthur Pearson, London, 1939)
