1. Charles Doughty-Wylie graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1889.
22 Facts About Charles Doughty-Wylie
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Charles Doughty-Wylie next served in the Second Boer War, then suppressing the Boxer Rebellion and in Somaliland, where he commanded a unit of the Somaliland Camel Corps.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie married in 1904 a nurse Lilian Oimara Adams, daughter of John Wylie and widow of Lieutenant Henry Adams.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie adopted the surname Doughty-Wylie to incorporate his wife's maiden name.
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Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie was the Acting British Vice-Consul at Konieh and Mersina, Ottoman Empire, during the Young Turk Revolution of 1909.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie then went to Adana, forty miles away, where he persuaded the local Vali to give him a small escort of Ottoman troops and a bugler; with these he managed to restore order.
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Mrs Charles Doughty-Wylie turned part of the dragoman's house into a hospital for wounded Armenians.
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Bell-Davies says that by the time an armed party from Swiftsure arrived, Charles Doughty-Wylie had again almost stopped the massacre single-handedly.
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Newspaper reports of the period record that Charles Doughty-Wylie was shot in the arm while trying to prevent the Adana massacres.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1909 Birthday Honours in recognition of his services during the disturbances in Asia Minor.
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In 1913, Charles Doughty-Wylie was the recipient of the Order of the Medjidie from the Ottoman Government.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was awarded the Medjidie "in recognition of valuable services rendered by him while in charge of the British Red Cross Hospitals in Turkey" during the Balkan Wars.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was 46 years old, and a lieutenant colonel in The Royal Welch Fusiliers, British Army when, "owing to his great knowledge of things Turkish" according to Bell-Davies, he was attached to General Sir Ian Hamilton's headquarters staff of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie is buried close to where he was killed, immediately north of Sedd-el-Bahr, opposite the point at which the SS River Clyde came ashore.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie's grave is the only solitary British or Commonwealth war grave on the Gallipoli peninsula: The Turkish authorities moved the graves of all other foreign soldiers to the "V Beach" graves except for his.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, had an unconsummated affair with Gertrude Bell with whom he exchanged love letters from 1913 until his death.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was a member of the Naval and Military Club from 1900 until his death.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was awarded the Royal Red Cross in the 1919 New Year Honours for her work as matron at Limenaria Hospital, Thasos, Greece.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie died in Cyprus in 1961 at the age of 83.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie is commemorated outside St Peter's Church in Theberton, Suffolk where his name is recorded on the war memorial.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie is named on the Winchester College War Cloister, the war memorial at Winchester College.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie was voiced by Pip Torrens in Letters from Baghdad, a 2016 documentary on Bell.