Charles Broad

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Noel Frank Broad, (29 December 1882 – 23 March 1976) was a British Army general during the Second World War.

Military career The son of Major C. H. Broad, Northumberland Fusiliers, Broad was educated at Wellington College and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He served in South Africa from 1901 to 1902 as an officer of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.

Broad was commissioned in 1904 into the Cambridge University Volunteers, then into the Royal Field Artillery in May 1905

Broad served in the First World War in France and Belgium, mostly on the staff, to which he had been seconded in April 1915. He transferred to the Royal Tank Corps in 1923 he retired in 1942.

Broad was also colonel commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment from 1939 to 1949.