CHARTERIS, Lt-Col John Anthony MBE MC 1940-2023

[Richard R]

He was s of Lt-Col John Douglas Archibald CHARTERIS 1914-77 (who he succ. as) head of that Scots gentry family of Amisfield and Joan Winifred d of Sir Oscar Rudolf HOBSON 1886-1961 and Frances Josephine 1889-1970 d of Charles Milner ATKINSON 1854-1920 by his 1 Sep 1888 m (Christ Church, Derby) to Mary Josephine HOBSON 1859-1915. He m 1967 Antoinette Daphne Margaret b c1946 d of Lt-Col Reginald Higginson LOWE 1901-84 of Bradnich, Devon by his 28 Aug 1937 m (Belfast) to Marie-Antoinette Jeanne Renee 1917-2012 d of Andre Jules Louis Ignace GHISLAIN DOUXCHAMPS 1883-1918 (Belgium) and as her 2^nd of 3 h Emilie Marie Edouard GILLARD 1891-1981,and had a son (JOHN NICHOLAS (Nick) ROBERT DUNBAR b 21 Oct 1977, who succeeds him. He m 2008 ref 329/7 Ballater, Henrietta Rose JORDAN b 1979 ref 330/28 Aboyne, and has issue 1. Eliza Rose b 2010 reg Q4 Hammersmith, 2. Rose Lorna A. b 2012 reg Q4 Hammersmith) and two daus.

Obit in the Times of 26 Jan 2024:

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Lieutenant Colonel John Charteris obituary

Army officer and helicopter pilot who fought in the Far East and received a Military Cross for bravery during the Troubles

…John Anthony Charteris was born in London in 1940. His father was a captain (later colonel) of Royal Engineers, son of another sapper officer, Brigadier General John Charteris, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig’s chief of intelligence on the Western Front; or, as some called him “Haig’s evil counsellor”. The family, Charteris of Amisfield, was an ancient one, and all three of the brigadier general’s sons fought in the Second World War. The youngest, Euan, after taking part in the famous Bruneval Raid with the Parachute Regiment in 1942, was killed in north Africa that year…

… In Singapore, Charteris met his future wife, Antoinette Lowe, who worked for MI5 and whose father had been second in command of the Assam Regiment at the battle of Kohima in 1944. They married in 1967. She and their three children survive him: Camilla, who married an officer of the Army Air Corps; Annabel, who married an officer of The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons); and Nick, who served in The Highlanders too…

… On leaving the Army he returned to the family home in Dumfriesshire, where he planted 10,000 trees, built five ponds for fishing and duck shooting, and tended his flock of Zwartbles sheep. He became chief fundraiser (southwest Scotland) for Marie Curie Cancer Care, was active in veterans affairs and the Dumfriesshire aircraft museum, and was chairman of the Dumfriesshire and Stewartry Foxhounds.

Charteris was the quintessential officer of what a contemporary called “the fag-end of Empire”: robust, independent-minded, leading from the front whether in action or a party, and who held the ring in Northern Ireland during the worst years of the Troubles.

John Charteris MBE, MC, Royal Scots officer and army pilot, was born on September 4, 1940. He died of complications arising from dementia on December 23, 2023, aged 83

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lt-col-john-charteris-obituary-55vqzrmdg

[Netty Leistra]

Lt Col John Anthony Charteris MC MBE died on 23 December 2023 at Midpark Hospital, Dumfries. Private funeral.

• His wife Antoinette
  
• His children Camilla, Annabel and Nick
  
• His grandchildren Harry, Saskia, George, Archie, Rollo, Charlie, Milo, Octavia, Isobella, Eliza and Rose
  
• His brother Andrew
  

Source: Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 5 January 2024

Memorial service: The Crichton Memorial Church on 16 March 2024.

Source: Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 16 February 2024