Walter Pitt-Taylor

General Sir Walter William Pitt-Taylor KCB CMG DSO (30 Aug 1878 – 22 November 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded 3rd Infantry Division.

Military career
Pitt-Taylor was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade in 1895. He fought in World War I latterly as Commander of 145th Infantry Brigade and then as Chief of Staff for XIV Corps. After the War he became Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He was appointed Director of Military Operations in India in 1920, Commander of 17th Indian Infantry Brigade in c.1922 and Commander of 5th Infantry Brigade in 1925. He went on to be Director of Recruiting & Organisation at the War Office in 1929, General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1932 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Western Command, India in 1936 before retiring in 1939.

Family
In 1920 he married Daphne Helen Stronge, daughter of Sir James Stronge, 5th Baronet.