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Townshend (SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS)

SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS, a British general, born in 1861. He entered the Royal Marines in 1881, but preferring the army to the navy, became a soldier in 1886 and was promoted through the ordinary grades, becoming major general in 1911.

He was included in the Sudan and Nile expeditions of 1884 and 1885, and in the Hunza Nagar expeditions of 1891 and 1892. He was in command at Chitral Fort, and served in the Dongola expedition in 1898 and in the South African War in 1899-1900. Afterward he did service in India and was assistant adjutant general of the Ninth Division Army there in 1907-1909. In 1912-1913 he was in command of a division of the Territorial Force. When the European war broke out in 1914 he became commander-in-chief of the British forces in Mesopotamia and was shut up by the Turks for five months in Kut el Amara, at the end of which in April, 1916, he surrendered with his army and was taken prisoner.