Charles Broad

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Noel Frank Broad KCB DSO (1882–1976) was a British Army General during World War II.

Military career
Educated at Cambridge University, Broad was commissioned in 1904 and went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1914.

He also served in World War I in France and Belgium.

After the War he became Commander of the 1st Brigade of the Royal Tank Corps in 1931 before being appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Aldershot Command in 1939. He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for the Eastern Army in India in 1940: in that capacity he welcomed the 7th Armoured Brigade back from Burma: he retired in 1942.

He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment from 1939 to 1949.