1. Charles Melliss was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in September 1882.
13 Facts About Charles Melliss
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Charles Melliss was wounded four times during these operations, once severely.
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On 30 September 1900 at Obassa, Ashanti, Captain Charles Melliss gathered together a party of men and charged into the bush at the head of them into the thick of the enemy.
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Charles Melliss vacated his appointment as second in command of the Northern Nigeria Forces in late 1902, and reverted to the Indian Army, where he was posted to the 1st Bombay Grenadiers.
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Charles Melliss was placed in command of a brigade, taking over from Major General James Young, in January 1912 and was promoted to major general on 19 March.
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Major General Charles Melliss was attached to the 6th Division of the British Indian Army as it moved into what was then the Ottoman province of Basra in 1914.
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Charles Melliss fought in the Battle of Ctesiphon, the furthest up the Tigris that the 6th Division would advance.
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Charles Melliss fell ill during the siege; he was in hospital when Townsend surrendered on 29 April 1916.
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When Charles Melliss was well enough to travel, he followed the same route north.
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Charles Melliss took any survivors he found with him; at each stop he insisted that the men he had rescued from the desert be put into hospital.
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Charles Melliss retired from the Indian Army 24 February 1920.
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Charles Melliss was appointed Colonel of his old regiment, the 53rd Sikhs, Frontier Force on 31 May 1921, a position he held until November 1934.
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Charles Melliss is buried at St Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England.