Charles Vincent Fox

Charles Vincent Fox
Charles Vincent Fox
Born 1877
Dublin, Ireland
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1899-1918
Rank Lieutenant
Unit Scots Guards
Battles/wars

World War I

Awards Distinguished Service Order

Charles Vincent Fox DSO (born 1877) was a British army officer and rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1900 and the Wingfield Sculls in 1901.

Fox was born in Dublin in 1877, the son of Henry and Mary Fox. His father was an agent for Dundalls Whisky and by 1881 had moved to Swanscombe, Kent.[1] Fox joined the Scots Guards and rowed for the Guards Brigade Rowing Club. In 1899 he entered the Wingfield Sculls but lost to B H Howell. He won the event in 1900.[2] In 1901 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, beating St G Ashe.[3]

Fox became a lieutenant in 1902[4] On the outbreak of World War I he was with the British Expeditionary Force and took part in the First Battle of Ypres. On 25 October he defended a breach in the line and captured five German officers and 200 men, and as a result was awarded the DSO.[5] He was captured and made three escape attempts, on one occasion throwing himself from a train. He made his last successful escape attempt from Schwarmstedt Camp in June 1917. In the course of his run to the border travelling with a Lieutenant Blank, he met up with Captain John Alan Lyde Caunter whose chronicle of his time in German camps and his escape described Fox's experiences in detail.[6] Fox provided evidence of an atrocity at the Brandenburg Camp writing on July 10, 1917 that before he arrived at the camp, an Englishman had been burned alive because guards would not let prisoners out of a burning building.[7]

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