Major General Charles Henry Brand, CB, CMG, CVO, DSO

Date of birth	1873-09-04	Ipswich, QLD
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1898-02-17	Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Queensland Volunteer Infantry.
Other	1899	Enlisted as a Sergeant in the 3rd Queensland (Mounted Infantry) Contingent on the outbreak of war in South Africa.
Other units	1900-04-26 - 1901-05-25	Served with the Rhodesian Field Force.
Date promoted	1900-06-25	Promoted to Lieutenant.
Other units	1900-07-01 - 1901-03-31	Served in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony.
Date returned to Australia	1901-06
Other	1902-05	Volunteered for a second tour and appointed Captain in Command of a squadron in the 7th Commonwealth Light Horse. Peace was declared before the unit reached South Africa.
Other	1902-09-01 - 1905-11-30	Served as Adjutant.
Date promoted	1903-03-27	Promoted to Captain in the Queensoland Volunteer Infantry.
Other	1905	Joined the Permanant Forces as a Lieutenant and joined the Administrative and Instructional Corps in Melbourne.
Date promoted	1909-07	Promoted to Captain.
Other	1914-08-15	Joined the AIF and was selected as brigade major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade.
Date of embarkation	1914-10-21	Embarked for Egypt on board the Orvieto.
Other units	1915-05-16	Assumed temporary command of the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
Other units	1915-05-20	Transferred to the 8th Infantry Battalion.
Date wounded	1915-05-21
Date of honour or award	1915-06-02	Awarded the Distringuished Service Order (DSO). He was the first Australian to receive one for the Gallipoli campaign.
Date promoted	1915-07-14	Appointed to Lieutenant Colonel and took over command of the 8th Battalion.
Other units	1916-06-06 - 1916-06-27	Acting Commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade.
Date promoted	1916-07-10	Promoted to Colonel and temporary Brigadier General and took command of the 4th Infantry Brigade.
Date promoted	1916-12-01	Promoted to brevet Lieutenant Colonel in the AMF.
Date wounded	1917-07-06
Date promoted	1917-09-24	Promoted to brevet Colonel in the AMF.
Other units	1918-07-09 - 1918-07-25	Acting commander of the 4th Division.
Date of honour or award	1918-10	Invested with the Companion of the Bath (CB), Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) and Distinguished Service Order (DSO) at Buckingham Palace. For his services he was Mentioned in Despatches eight times.
Date returned to Australia	1918-10-05	Left the 4th Brigade to return to Australia on Anzac Leave.
Other	1918-12-21	Arrived in Australia.
Other	1919 - 1920	Commandant of the 3rd Military District (Victoria).
Other	1919-02-21	AIF appointment terminated.
Date promoted	1920-04-01	Confirmed in the rank of Brigadier General.
Other	1921 - 1925	Base Commandant of the 2nd Military District (New South Wales).
Other	1926	Became 2nd Chief of the General Staff (CGS) and a member of the Military Board.
Other	1928 - 1933	Quartermaster General.
Other	1933	Retired with the rank of Major General.
Date of death	1961-07-31

ANDL member. Born Ipswich 1873, educated state schools, citizen then permenant soldier. AIF battalion commander then brigade commander, died Toorak 1961. See 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', pp. 390-1.