Charles Doughty-Wylie - Early Life

Early Life

A native of Suffolk, Doughty-Wylie was a 1889 graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. His military career included the Chitral Expedition (1895), 1898 Occupation of Crete, the Mahdist War (1898–99), the Second Boer War, the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and Somaliland (1903–04) where he commanded a unit of the Somaliland Camel Corps.

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