Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Crawford Simpson Boswell, KCB, CBE, DL (3 August 1928 – 13 November 2021) was a British Army officer.
After an education at Merchiston Castle School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst,[1] Boswell was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1948.
[2] He remained with his regiment until 1959, when he attended the Staff College, Camberley, and on completion of the course in 1960 was posted to the Berlin Brigade as military assistant to the commander.
[1] The 39th Brigade was one of the units permanently stationed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and for his work there Boswell was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.
[4] In 1974 he was appointed chief of staff to I (British) Corps in Germany, then posted to Canada, before becoming General Officer Commanding 2nd Armoured Division in 1978.