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Name: GWYNN, Charles William CB, CMG, DSO (Major-General), Sir

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Nee: 3rd son of Rev. John Gwynn, DD

Birth Date: 4 Feb 1870 Ramelton, Co. Donegal

Death Date: 12 Feb 1963 Dublin

First Date: 1908

Profession: 1908 - surveying Anglo-Abyssinian frontier

Married: In Dublin 1 Nov 1904 Minnie Wooder Ravenor b. 1873 Hackney, d. 1951 (prev. m. to Robert Lowry Herbert Armstrong 1859-1903)

Children: None

Book Reference: Moyse, White Man, Debrett, DSO

School: St. Columba's Coll. and at R.M.A. Woolwich

General Information:

Debrett - entered RE 1889, and became Capt. and Brevet Major 1900, Major 1908, Brevet Lieut.-Col. and Lieut.-Col. 1916, Brevet Col. 1917 and Maj.-Gen. 1925; operations against Sofas in W. Africa 1893-4 (wounded three times, despatches, DSO, Brevet Major), European War 1915-19 Comdg. 6th Australian Inf. Brig. in Gallipoli, as Brig.-Gen. , Gen. Staff 2nd Anzac (XXII Corps), and Comdg. 1st Midland Brig. Army of Rhine (Brevets Lieut.-Col. and Col., CB, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour); is a FRGS (Cuthbert Peake medallist); an ADC to HM 1923-25; sometime engaged in Delimitation of Sudan Abyssinia Frontier (CMG), and British EA Abyssinian Frontier; Director of Mil. Art at Mill. Coll., Commonwealth of Australia 1910-14; appointed Col.-on-Staff, E. Command 1920, and Comdt. of Staff Coll., Camberley 1926.
DSO - full military career details
White Man - 1909 - a second commission under Major Gwynn sent to retrace the Abyssinian border.

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