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Charles Pawsey
Sir Charles Ridley Pawsey, CSI, CIE, (1894–1972) was a British colonial administrator.
==Biography==
Pawsey was born on 14 July 1894. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and Wadham College, Oxford where he graduated with a BA. He was commissioned into the Worcestershire Regiment in 1914 and won the Military Cross as a Lieutenant in 1916 and bar the next year. He was promoted Captain in 1917 and resigned his Territorial Army commission in 1922.
Pawsey joined the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in 1919. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner in Assam in 1919, becoming Director of Land Records in 1932. He was made a Deputy Commissioner in 1935 and was District Commissioner (D.C.), Naga Hills during the Burma campaigns of 1942 to 1944. Pawsey's bungalow and tennis court were the place where the British Fourteenth Army finally turned the tide of the war against the Japanese during the Burma Campaign of World War II at the Battle of Kohima. The part of this battle centred on his bungalow was known as the Battle of the Tennis Court. Showing great bravery and loyalty to the local Naga people, Pawsey refused to leave Kohima during the siege by the Japance that lasted from 5 April to 20 April 1944, and did what he could to bolster morale and support Colonel Richards the Garrison Commander. The Nagas remained completely loyal to him and by way of thanks their tribal leaders were introduced to Lord Mountbatten at Kohima in August 1944.
Prior to his return to Britain following India's independence, Pawsey wrote in the ''Naga Nation'', underlining that autonomy within the Indian Union was the more prudent course to follow. For, "Independence will mean: tribal warfare, no hospitals, no schools, no salt, no trade with the plains and general unhappiness". He was knighted in 1947, and he retired 1948. In his later years he lived at The Priory, Badingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk until his death on 21 July 1972.
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