Harold Redman

Lieutenant General Sir Harold Redman, KCB, CBE (1899–1986) was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II and the post-war era.

Military career
Redman was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1917. He served in World War I in France and Germany. He transferred to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1929.

He became an Instructor at the Senior Officers' School at Sheerness in 1937 and then moved on to be an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1938.

He served in World War II being appointed Commanding Officer of 7th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1940. Then in 1941 he became Commander 151st Infantry Brigade which took him to North Africa, Cyprus and the Middle East.

Later that year he was made a Brigadier on the General Staff of the 8th Army in North Africa.

In 1942 he became Commander of 10th Indian Motor Brigade and in 1943 he went on to be British Secretary to Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington D.C. He was appointed Deputy Commander for the French Forces of the Interior in 1944 and Deputy Head of Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force Mission to France later that year.

After the War he initially became Head of the British Military Mission to France and then in 1946 he became Chief of Staff to Allied Land Forces South East Asia. He was made Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1948 and Principal Staff Officer to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1951.

He was made Vice-Chief Imperial General Staff in 1952 and Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Gibraltar in 1955. He retired in 1958.

In retirement he became the first Director and Secretary of the Wolfson Foundation in 1958.