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Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps during the First World War, most notably at the Battle of Amiens in 1918.
Lt Gen Charles Kavanagh
Kavanagh, pictured here in 1899 as a captain and adjutant to the 6th Yeomanry Brigade.
Lieutenant-General Charles Kavanagh, GOC Cavalry Corps, pictured here fifth from the left in the front row with members of his staff in November 1918.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (centre front) with his senior commanders and staff officers at Cambrai, France November 1918. Stood in the third row, second on the left, is Lieutenant-General Kavanagh, GOC Cavalry Corps.
The Cavalry Corps was a cavalry corps of the British Army in the First World War. The corps was formed in France in October 1914, under General Sir Edmund Allenby. It was later broken up in March 1916
Charles Kavanagh
…Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, (25 March 1864 – 11 October 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps during the First World War, most notably at the Battle of Amiens in 1918. Kavanagh was born in March 1864 in Borris, County Carlow, the son of Arthur…
Edmund Allenby, the first commander