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Charles Keightley
General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley (24 June 1901 – 17 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer during and following the Second World War. Between 1958 and 1962 he was the Governor of Gibraltar.
==Early life and career==
Keightley was born in 1901 and, graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in December 1921 into the 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) which through amalgamation with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers became 5th/6th Dragoons the following year. He was promoted lieutenant at the end of 1923 and captain in April 1932, having served three years as the regiment's adjutant. He attended Staff College, Camberley from January 1935 and after a staff posting was in October 1937 appointed brigade major of a mechanized cavalry brigade in Egypt. He was able, however, in November to take part in the coronation of King George VI in London as a member of the procession accompanying the King and Queen. In September 1938 his brigade became part of the new Mobile Division in Egypt commanded by the influential Percy Hobart.
Keightley was able to benefit from Hobart's tutelage for only a brief period and having been promoted to the rank of major he was appointed in December 1938 an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley with a local rank of lieutenant colonel.
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