Charles Luard

Major-General Charles Camac Luard CB CMG (14 September 1867 - 28 June 1947) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Military career
Educated at Clifton College, Luard was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry in 1885.

He was a keen cricketer and played for the Europeans cricket team in the 1892/3 season and again in 1898/9 season.

He served in the Second Boer War and World War I in which he initially commanded 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry and in the latter stages of which he commanded a Brigade in India before commanding 9th Infantry Brigade and was then deployed as part of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and then the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

After the War he again became a Brigade Commander in India and moved on to be Commander of British Troops in South China in 1925: he retired in 1929.

He became Colonel of the Durham Light Infantry in 1934.