1. Charles Blackader commanded an Indian brigade on the Western Front in 1915, and a Territorial brigade in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916, before being appointed to command the 38th Division on the Western Front, a position he held until retiring due to ill-health in May 1918.
In 1916, it was sent to Dublin during the Easter Rising; following the Rising, Charles Blackader presided over a number of the resulting courts-martial, including those of several of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
Charles Blackader remained with the division for almost two years, helping retrain and reorganise it as an efficient fighting unit.
The division would see significant successes in the Hundred Days Offensive of late 1918, but by this point Charles Blackader was no longer in command; he had been invalided home earlier in the year.
Charles Blackader died shortly after the war, in 1921, aged 51.
Charles Guinand Blackader was born in Richmond, Surrey on 20 September 1869.
Charles Blackader's father, Charles George Blackader, was a teacher to a small number of boarding pupils; he had come from an Army family, and taught at Cheltenham College and Clifton College, Bristol, before moving to private tuition.
Charles Blackader left Sandhurst in August 1888, and joined the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, as a second lieutenant.
Charles Blackader and his wife spent a year and a half in Bermuda, where their daughter Dorothy was born in April 1889, and moved to Nova Scotia in Canada when the battalion was transferred there in 1890; shortly after arrival, on 21 March, he was promoted to lieutenant on 21 March.
In late 1895, the battalion moved to South Africa, but shortly after arrival Charles Blackader returned to England; he was promoted to captain on 6 December.
In late 1897, Charles Blackader was seconded for service in West Africa, as one of the officers recruited by Frederick Lugard for the newly raised West African Frontier Force.
Charles Blackader was attached to the 1st Battalion, under Thomas Pilcher, who described him as always "cheery and anxious to do his work"; he threw himself fully into the organisation of the force, and within six months of his arrival the battalion was able to be deployed successfully on operations against local slave-traders.
Charles Blackader left West Africa in January 1899, after a successful posting, but in ill-health; a third of the officers sent with him had died while on secondment, and Blackader had contracted malaria as well as suffering an attack of dysentery.
Charles Blackader spent six months on leave to recover, and then sailed to take command of a company of the 1st Leicesters, still stationed in South Africa.
Charles Blackader joined his company in Natal in early October 1899.
The battalion's area of responsibility was extended in April 1901 to take in Witbank, and Charles Blackader was appointed commandant of the railway station and its associated collieries, with over 1,500 staff.
Charles Blackader had applied for a home posting in December 1900, as adjutant to a battalion of volunteers; this had been approved in August 1901, subject to his being released from duties in South Africa.
Charles Blackader had been twice mentioned in despatches during the war, received the Queen's South Africa Medal, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
Charles Blackader returned to England with the battalion at the end of 1906, when it moved into camp at Shorncliffe.
Charles Blackader settled into the undemanding life of a home posting, with an active social as well as sporting calendar; he and Edward Challenor, a fellow officer in the battalion, won the garrison tennis cup two years running, and Blackader was recorded to have made a good showing at sports as diverse as billiards and soccer.
Charles Blackader had passed the exams for "tactical fitness for command" of a battalion in 1908, and was given command of a battalion and promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1912.
Major General Henry Keary, commanding the Garhwals, was promoted to command the Lahore Division in January 1915, and on 8 January Charles Blackader was given the temporary rank of brigadier general, assuming command of the Garhwal Brigade in his stead.
Charles Blackader was transferred to command of the 177th Brigade, part of the 59th Division in January 1916.
On 21 November 1918, ten days after the armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended the war, Charles Blackader was appointed to command the Southern District in Ireland, serving until 1 February 1920.
Charles Blackader was made a Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold, and awarded both the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre.