Brigadier Austin Claude Girdwood CB, CMG, DSO & Bar (24 April 1875 – 13 March 1951) was a British Army officer.
Commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers on 6 June 1896, he was promoted Lieutenant in April 1898 and Captain in July 1900.
He thereafter saw action in the Second Boer War taking part in the fighting at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, Magersfontein, Venterskroon and Rhenoster River and was severely wounded near Kleinfontein on 24 October 1901.
[1][2] He served in France during World War I, gaining promotion to Major in 1915; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a Service Battalion of the Border Regiment, 16 July-20 August 1917 and Temporary Brigadier-General from 21 August 1917, commanding the 96th Infantry Brigade.
For his war service he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 New Year Honours, gained the Belgian Croix de Guerre and was awarded a bar to the DSO and six times mentioned in despatches.