John Brind

General Sir John Edward Spencer Brind KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, (1878–1954) was a British Army officer who commanded 4th Division.

Military career
Brind was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1897 before serving in the Second Boer War. He also served in World War I going to France as a captain with the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16 August 1914 and serving as a general staff officer with 56th (London) Division from 6 February 1916 to 31 October 1916 when he became a brigadier on the general staff of XI Corps, part of Fifth Army.

He went on to be Deputy Director at the War Office in 1923, colonel Royal Artillery at Aldershot Command in 1925 and brigadier on the general staff at Aldershot Command in 1927. After that he became major-general, Royal Artillery in India in 1930, Deputy Chief of the General Staff at Army Headquarters, India in 1931 and General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1933. His final appointments were as Commander-in-Chief, International Forces in the Saar in 1934, Adjutant-General, India in 1936 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command in October 1937, serving in that role in the early years of World War II before retiring in 1941.

Retirement
In retirement he was Deputy Regional Commissioner for the North Eastern Region of England. He also wrote a Brind family history.