Lieutenant Colonel Charles à Court Repington (1858-1925), CMG, was a British Army officer and war correspondent.
His family name was à Court; in his memoirs, Repington wrote: "The à Courts are Wiltshire folk, and in old days represented Heytesbury in Parliament... The name of Repington, under the terms of an old will, was assumed by all the à Courts in turn as they succeeded to the Amington Hall Estate, and I followed the rule when my father died in 1903."[1]
His military career began with service in the Rifle Brigade in Afghanistan, Burma, and Sudan; he served as a staff officer during the Boer War. An affair with a fellow officer's wife was made public in 1902, and Colonel Repington was forced to resign his commission, whereupon he took a position as a military correspondent with The Times. "Repington was a firm advocate of a strong national army (at the expense of the navy, much to the annoyance of Admiral Fisher). His journalism therefore tended to be geared towards propounding his belief in a firm national defensive policy."[2] He resigned from The Times in January 1918 and joined The Morning Post; not long afterwards, he was found guilty of disclosing secret information and fined. After the armistice he joined The Daily Telegraph and began writing bestselling books about World War I.
He was Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) and Officer of the Légion d'honneur (France).
Repington wrote several books, including
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