Arthur Reginald Chater

Major-General Arthur Reginald Chater CB, CVO, DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre (1896 – 1979) was an officer in the Royal Marines during World War I, the interwar years, and World War II.

During the Gallipoli Campaign, Chater was in the Chatham Battalion of the Royal Marine Brigade at Kaba Tepe. He fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey from 28 April to 12 May 1915, and in March 1918, he participated in the Allied raid on Zeebrugge, Belgium.

In November 1924, Chater was in the Egyptian Army during the Sudanese Army mutiny in Khartoum, Sudan. This mutiny followed the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Sudan, in Cairo.

In August 1940, during the early stages of the East African Campaign, Colonel Chater commanded the Somaliland Camel Corps when the Italians invaded British Somaliland from Italian East Africa.

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