Cecil Faber Aspinall was born in Wrexham, Wales in 1878, the eldest son of Henry Edmund Aspinall and Kate née Williams. He received his formal education at the Isle of Wight College, and Rugby School.[2]
After the Ashanti campaign Aspinall was granted a regular commission as a Second lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers (RMF) backdated to April 1900 but did not join until October 1900.[9][10] He was seconded for service with the Army Service Corps in the Second Boer War, and served with it in operations in Cape Colony from August to December 1901 and in Orange River Colony from February to May 1902.[11] He was promoted to lieutenant in the RMF on 6 February 1902.[12]
He was promoted to Captain on 2 August 1908 and having passed staff college he served as a staff captain and General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3) at Army Headquarters in India for four years from 26 January 1909. From 1 October 1913 he was at the War Office in London as a GSO2.[13]
On the outbreak of World War I Aspinall was working as a GSO2 under the Director of Staff Duties at the War Office.[14] In March 191, he was informed that he would be joining the staff of Sir Ian Hamilton's Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He was one of Sir Ian Hamilton's most trusted aides during the Gallipoli campaign (1915–1916), where his actions saw him mentioned in despatches over a dozen times.[15] On 7 August 1916 he was appointed chief of staff (GSO1) of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, involved in the final phase of the Somme operations and the at Arras and Ypres in 1917.[16] On 18 November 1917, Aspinall moved up to be Brigadier-General General Staff of VIII Corps and remained in this role for the remainder of the war. [17]
Aspinall-Oglander died in his 81st year at Nunwell, on the Isle of Wight, on 23 April 1959. This location was long associated with the Oglander baronets. His second wife, Joan Oglander, came from a long line of descendants that had lived at Nunwell.[citation needed]
Aspinall-Oglander, Cecil Faber (1929). Military Operations Gallipoli: Inception of the Campaign to May 1915. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (1st ed.). London: William Heinemann. OCLC464479053.
Aspinall-Oglander, C. F. (1932). Military Operations Gallipoli: May 1915 to the Evacuation. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II. London: William Heinemann. OCLC278615923.
^"LOT 506 Orders and decorations and medals to Brigadier-General Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander". Woolley and Wallis auctioneers. April 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020. The regimentally unique group of orders and decorations to Brigadier-General Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Munster Fusiliers, chief of staff of the Royal Naval Division in France, and more widely known as one of General Sir Ian Hamilton's most trusted aides throughout the Gallipoli campaign, of which he was author of the Official History.
^Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division, London: HM Stationery Office, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-41-X, pp. 117–27.
^Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 4: The Army Council, GHQs, Armies, and Corps 1914–1918, London: HM Stationery Office, 1944/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-43-6, p. 179.
^"An impressive set of medals awarded to the official historian of the Gallipoli campaign has sold at auction for £30,000". Woolley and Wallis auctioneers. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020. Medals sold at auction for £30,000 An impressive set of medals awarded to the official historian of the Gallipoli campaign has sold at auction [on 1 May 2019] for £30,000.Brigadier-General Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. is remembered as one of Sir Ian Hamilton's most trusted aides during the campaign, and his actions saw him mentioned in despatches over a dozen times.
Green, A. (2003). "Chapter 5: Military Operations Gallipoli, Part I. Chapter 6: Military Operations Gallipoli Part II". Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915–1948. London: Routledge. pp. 85–143. ISBN978-0-7146-5495-9.