Major General Arthur Verney Hammond CB, DSO (16 October 1892 – 15 January 1982) was a senior officer of the British Indian Army during the Second World War.
On 6 September 1911 he commissioned onto the Unattached List for the Indian Army, before serving for a year with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
[4] He then served in North West Persia from 1920 to 1921, later attending the Staff College, Quetta, from 1925 to 1926, before returning to India, where he became Brigade Major in 1928.
In 1940 he returned to duties in India and in August 1941 Hammond became commander of the 23rd Indian Infantry Brigade, seeing action in the Japanese conquest of Burma.
In June 1944 Hammond was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath and took up the position of Commander, Lucknow District, which he held until October 1945.