| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Bronze | 1908 London | Team |
Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes (1 February 1875 – 6 May 1969) was a Royal Engineers officer in the British Army and also a British international field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in the bronze medal-winning team. He saw service in World War I and, following the first German use of gas on 22 April 1915 at Ypres, became Britain's chief advisor on gas warfare. He also advised on the use of gas to suppress the uprisings in Afghanistan (1919) and Waziristan (1920), but gas was never actually deployed in these conflicts.
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Foukles was born in British India in 1875.
He received a commission in 1894 into the British Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.
Between 1902 and 1904 he was assistant commander on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate. During this period he was active in the Kano-Sokoto expedition which brought the Emirs under British control.
Returning to the British Isles, he took command of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland from 1904 to 1909.
Foulkes was appointed Major in 1914 and spent the war on the Western Front. At the First Battle of Ypres (1914) he was Commander, 11 (Field) Company RE. Appointed "Gas Adviser" in 1915.
In 1928 he was Aide-de-camp to the King.