Charles Harvey-Kelly

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hamilton Grant Hume Harvey-Kelly, (1885–1982) was a British Indian Army officer who served as Military Attaché to Kabul (1924–26). He was brother to H.D. Harvey-Kelly, the first Royal Flying Corps pilot to land in France in the First World War.
Early life and career.
Harvey-Kelly was educated at Bedford Modern School and Sandhurst. He was commissioned in 1905 and appointed to the British Indian Army in 1906 where he served in East Africa (Somaliland) between 1908 and 1910. Harvey-Kelly served with the Indian Contingent at the Coronation of King George VI in 1911.<br> 
During the First World War Harvey-Kelly fought on the North West frontier (having been ill when his unit was shipped to the Western Front). He was mentioned in despatches three times, made a brevet major and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in June 1919. In 1926 Harvey-Kelly was awarded the MacGregor Memorial Medal for military reconnaissances and journeys of exploration. His papers concerning the expedition to Afghan Turkestan are held in the national archive.
Military career.
1905: Commissioned a 2nd lieutenant on 18 January 1905<br>
1906: Posted to the 127th Baluch Light Infantry and becomes a Double Company Officer, part of the Indian Army<br>
1907: Promoted to lieutenant on 19 April 1907<br>
1911: Company officer & adjutant<br>
1914: Promoted to captain on 18 January 1914<br>
1917: becomes a brevet major on 3 June 1917<br>
1919: Awarded the Distinguished Service Order<br>
1920: Promoted to major on 18 January 1920<br>
1928: retires the Indian Army, and promoted lieutenant colonel on retirement
Later life.
Harvey-Kelly later retired to his native Ireland, eventually settling in Clonhugh, County Westmeath where he died in 1982.