Robert Penfold (British Army officer)

Major-General Robert Bernard Penfold CB MVO (born 1916) is a former British Army officer who commanded South East District.

Military career
Penfold was commissioned into the Royal Leicestershire Regiment in 1936 and then transferred to the Indian Army. He served in World War II as an officer in Iraqforce and after the War transferred to the Royal Artillery. He became commanding Officer of 6th Battalion King's African Rifles in Tanganyika in 1959. He was appointed Commander of 127th Infantry Brigade in 1962, Security Operations Advisor to the High Commissioner in Aden during the Aden Emergency in 1964 and Chief of Defence Staff, Kenya Defence Forces in 1966. He went on to be General Officer Commanding South East District in 1969 before he retired in 1972. He was appointed CB in 1969.