Major General Charles Henry Brand

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Photograph P01580.019
Service number 91
Ranks Held Brigadier General, Captain, Colonel, Major, Major General, Private, Temporary Brigadier General
Birth Date 04/09/1873
Birth Place Australia: Queensland, Ipswich
Death Date 31/07/1961
Death Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Toorak
Final Rank Major General
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 3rd Australian Infantry Brigade
  • 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
  • 4th Australian Division
  • 4th Australian Infantry Brigade
  • 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
  • 8th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • Australian Instructional Corps
  • Brigade Headquarters
  • Staff
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
  • First World War, 1914-1918

Collection items

    Media


    Group portrait of senior officers of the Australian Imperial Force at Victoria Barracks. ...

    Group portrait of members of the visiting French Squadron with senior officers at Victoria ...

    Brand, Charles Henry CB, CMG, CVO, DSO (Major General, b: 1873 d: 1961)

    Brand, Charles Henry CB, CMG, CVO, DSO (Major General, b: 1873 d: 1961)

    JALNA, INDIA. 1910. LOOKING INTO THE TENT OF CAPTAIN CHARLES HENRY BRAND, STAFF CAPTAIN TO 9TH ...

    OUTSIDE TENT LINES, LEFT TO RIGHT: SERGEANT MAJOR WILLIAM HOLMES; SIR RONALD MUNRO FERGUSON, ...

    BRISBANE, QLD. 1901-06. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT CHARLES HENRY BRAND. NOTE THE BLACK ARM ...

    TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA. 1901. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT CHARLES HENRY BRAND, 3RD QUEENSLAND ...

    Document


    Wallet 8 of 12 - Miscellaneous papers of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson, 1941-1954

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Timeline

Date of birth 04/09/1873
Date and unit at appointment (Officers) 17/02/1898 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.
Date promoted 25/06/1900 Promoted to Lieutenant.
Other units 1900-07-01 - 1901-03-31 Served in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony.
Other units 1900-04-26 - 1901-05-25 Served with the Rhodesian Field Force.
Date returned to Australia 06/1901
Other 1902-09-01 - 1905-11-30 Served as Adjutant.
Other 05/1902 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.
Date promoted 27/03/1903 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 07/1909 Promoted to Captain.
Other 15/08/1914 Joined the AIF and was selected as brigade major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade.
Date of embarkation 21/10/1914
Date of embarkation 21/10/1914 Embarked for Egypt on board the Orvieto.
Other units 20/05/1915 Transferred to the 8th Infantry Battalion.
Date wounded 21/05/1915
Date promoted 14/07/1915 Appointed to Lieutenant Colonel and took over command of the 8th Battalion.
Date of honour or award 02/06/1915 Awarded the Distringuished Service Order (DSO). He was the first Australian to receive one for the Gallipoli campaign.
Other units 16/05/1915 Assumed temporary command of the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 1915
Date promoted 01/12/1916 Promoted to brevet Lieutenant Colonel in the AMF.
Other units 1916-06-06 - 1916-06-27 Acting Commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade.
Date of recommendation honour or award 10/10/1916
Date promoted 10/07/1916 Promoted to Colonel and temporary Brigadier General and took command of the 4th Infantry Brigade.
Date of recommendation honour or award 08/03/1917
Date promoted 24/09/1917 Promoted to brevet Colonel in the AMF.
Date of recommendation honour or award 20/09/1917
Date wounded 06/07/1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 30/09/1918
Date of honour or award 10/1918 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 05/10/1918 Left the 4th Brigade to return to Australia on Anzac Leave.
Date of recommendation honour or award 09/03/1918
Other 21/12/1918 Arrived in Australia.
Other units 1918-07-09 - 1918-07-25 Acting commander of the 4th Division.
Other 1919 - 1920 Commandant of the 3rd Military District (Victoria).
Other 21/02/1919 AIF appointment terminated.
Date promoted 01/04/1920 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 31/07/1961 Cremated with full military honours.

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