Charles Norman

Major-General Charles Wake Norman CBE (1891–1974) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Military career
Educated at Eton College, Norman was commissioned into the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry in 1910.

He served in World War II initially as Inspector of the Royal Armoured Corps. In 1940 he was made Commander of the 1st Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade in France and then Commander of 27th Armoured Brigade.

He was appointed General Officer Commanding 8th Armoured Division in North Africa in 1941 and GOC 10th Armoured Division in the Middle East in 1942. He went on to be GOC Aldershot District in 1944 before becoming Major-General in charge of Amoured Fighting Vehicles at Middle East Command in 1945. He retired in 1946.

He lived at Bromley Common until 1946 and was appointed High Sheriff of Kent in 1947.