Brigadier Charles Douglas Armstrong CBE DSO MC | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Predrag_Rakovi%C4%87_and_Brigadier_Charles_Armstrong_in_Yugolavia,_1943.jpg) Brigadier Charles Armstrong with Chetnik officer Predrag Raković, autumn 1943. | |
| Born | 11 June 1897 |
| Died | 11 December 1985 (aged 88) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Service number | 11740 |
| Unit | East Surrey Regiment Machine Gun Corps Special Operations Executive |
| Commands | 1/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment 70th (Young Soldiers') Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment |
| Battles / wars | World War I Russian Civil War World War II |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross |
Brigadier Charles Douglas Armstrong CBE DSO MC (11 June 1897 – 11 December 1985) was a British Army officer in World War I and World War II. In the latter conflict he was the head of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) liaison mission to the Chetnik forces of Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia from July 1943 to early 1944.[1][2]
- ^ (Iatrides 2014, p. 421):"Charles Douglas Armstrong, head of the British Liaison Mission to Mihailović."
- ^ (Jeffreys-Jones & Stafford 2014, p. 28):" The last British presence with the Chetnik commander, an SOE mission under the command of Brigadier Charles Armstrong, ..."