Alex Greenwood (British Army officer)

Major Alex Greenwood (8 March 1920 – 7 November 2012) was aide-de-camp to General Claude Auchinleck in India during the Second World War and later became a member of the executive committee which surrounded General Sir Walter Colyear Walker, and tasked itself with creating a contingency plan for the British Army to takeover British Government if the communist threat perceived in Britain at the time ever got out of hand.

Major Greenwood was a member of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment. He died on 7 November 2012.