Raymond Briggs (British Army officer)

Major-General Raymond Briggs CB DSO (1895–1984) was a British Army officer who led 2nd Armoured Brigade at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Military career
Briggs served in World War I with the Machine Gun Corps receiving his commission in 1915. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Director for Mechanized Warfare at the War Office in 1936. He served in World War II as a General Staff Officer before becoming Commander of 2nd Armoured Brigade in 1940. As commander of this brigade he participated in the First Battle of El Alamein. Immediately after that battle he was appointed Commander the 1st Armoured Division and commanded it during the Second Battle of El Alamein, receiving the CB for his role in the battle. In 1943 he was appointed Director of the Royal Armoured Corps at the War Office. He retired in 1947.