Lieutenant-General Sir Balfour Oliphant Hutchison, KBE, CB (12 February 1889 – 26 April 1967) was a Scottish soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars.

[1] After attending Uppingham School, Hutchison received a commission as a second lieutenant into the Royal Artillery Supplementary Reserve on 26 June 1909.

[6] Returning to the United Kingdom in early 1928, Hutchison served with Eastern Command as Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General.

From October 1937 until November 1938, he served as assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general to the Mobile Division, commanded by Major-General Alan Brooke, who had been one of Hutchison's instructors at the Staff College.

[6] Hutchison was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1940,[8] when he was Deputy Quartermaster-General, Middle East, and with it came a promotion to the acting rank of major general.