Colonel Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl Anwyl-Passingham CBE DL JP (31 August 1880 – 22 November 1955) was a British soldier, recruiting officer and Territorial Army organiser.
He was the second and youngest son of Major Robert Townshend Passingham, JP, DL (1843–1893), of Bala, Merionethshire, and his wife Lucy Emma (d. 1909), eldest daughter of Thomas Jeffreys Badger of Kingsland, Shropshire.
His elder brother was the soldier Robert Townshend Anwyl-Passingham, OBE (1867–1926), and two of his sisters married Italian noblemen.
Between 1905 and 1907, he was part of the Royal West African Frontier Force[2] and in 1906 participated in the Hadeija and Sokoto expeditions in Nigeria.
[6] He was made a deputy director of recruiting with responsibility for Wales and was promoted to temporary colonel in August 1917;[7] he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours for his services.