Chauncey Batho Dashwood Strettell

Major-General Sir Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell, (6 August 1881 – 27 January 1958), known by his middle name "Dashwood", was a senior officer in the British Indian Army. A graduate of Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1900. He served in Burma and India, and participated in the Mesopotamian campaign in the First World War.

Promoted to major general in 1934, he was deputy quarter master general and director of movements in India from July 1935 to February 1936 and then director of the organisation in India until November 1936, when he became commander of the Peshawar District. He retired in 1940, but was recalled active service as a group commandant of the prisoner of war camps in 1941. He was director of demobilisation and reconstruction in Indian from 1941 to 1943, before retiring for the last time in 1944.

Early life and family Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell, known by his middle name "Dashwood", was born on 6 August 1881, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Dashwood Strettell (1845–1933), of Hythe in Kent, and his wife Harriette Elizabeth née Batho (died 1884), daughter of William Fothergill Batho (1828–1886), a civil engineer, of Surbiton in Surrey. He had a younger brother, Arnold William Cunninghame (1884–1888), and two half-siblings by his father's second marriage to Hortense Augusta (died 1951), daughter of Francis Levien, secretary to the London Stock Exchange: Doris Eileen (born 1892) and Colonel Eric Francis Dashwood, (1894–1970). His father entered the Indian Army in 1862, serving successively with the Connaught Rangers and the 190th Regiment. He fought in the Abyssinian Campaign, before working for a year in the Bengal staff Corps. He was in the Kurram Column 1878–79, the Waziri Expedition of 1881 and the Takht Sulliman Expedition of 1891. In 1922, Strettell married Margery Gillian de Hane (died 1978), daughter of Herbert Henry Brown, ; they had a son, James Dashwood (born 1924), who served as a captain in the Royal Artillery.

Career Following schooling at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Posted to the Bengal Command three months later, he was formally transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in april 1901, before promotion to lieutenant the following May. He served with the 13th Rajputs in 1901 and the 3rd Punjab Cavalry in 1902 during the Waziristan Campaign of 1901–1902.

Strettell fought in World War I. when he became commander of the Peshawar District. He retired in 1940, although he was brought back into active service as a group commandant of the prisoner of war camps in 1941. He was then director of demobilisation and reconstruction in Indian (1941–1943), before retiring for the last time in 1944. In his retirement, Strettell served on a number of boards, including the Council of the Asian Society, the Governing body of Wellington College (1947–56) and the Punjab Frontier Force Executive Committee (Chairman between 1951 and 1954). He died on 27 January 1958.