Charles Deedes

General Sir Charles Parker Deedes KCB CMG DSO (9 August 1879 – 9 March 1969) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

Military career
Deedes was commissioned into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1899 and served in the Second Boer War.

He also served in World War I initially as a General Staff Officer at the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force and then from 1916 with 14th Army Corps and from 1917 as a General Staff Officer with 2nd Division in France.

After the War he was appointed Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office. In 1926 he became Commander of 3rd Infantry Brigade and in 1928 he was made General Officer Commanding 53rd (Welsh) Division. He became Director of Personal Services at the War Office in 1930 and Military Secretary in 1934. He retired in 1937.

During World War II he was an Area Commander for the Home Guard.

Family
He married Eve Mary Dean-Pitt and they went on to have a son (Major-General Charles Julius Deedes).