Cyril Bentham Falls CBE was a British military historian, journalist and academic of Anglo-Irish extraction. During World War I he joined the British Army, receiving a commission as a subaltern in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He also served as a Staff Officer in the Headquarters of the 36th (Ulster) Division and the 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division during the course of the war. He was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and was discharged from the British Army with the rank of Captain. After completing his military service, Falls wrote a history of one of the units he had served with during the war. His first book, 'The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division' was published in 1922. From 1923 to 1939 he was employed by the Historical Section of the U.K. Government's Committee of Imperial Defence, researching and writing several volumes of the British Government's 'Official History of the War'. During World War II he served as the military correspondent for 'The Times' of London, from 1939 to 1945. After the war he held the post of Chichele Professor of Military History at All Souls College, Oxford University from 1946 to 1953.