Brigadier Bernard Campbell Fletcher, DSO, MC (17 June 1898 – 1968) was an officer of the British Army active during the First and Second World Wars.
Fletcher was born on 17 June 1898 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst into the British Army's Highland Light Infantry on 7 April 1916.
On the 29th September, 1918, in the attack on Le Tronquoy, he led his company through the village, gaining all of his objectives and capturing about ten machine guns and 60 prisoners.
[11] In 1938 he succeeded Horatio Berney-Ficklin in command of the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry,[12] and his promotion to lieutenant colonel was gazetted 1 July 1939.
He was then appointed to command Flitforce (a reference to his nickname),[12] an ad hoc grouping created to pursue the retreating Italians towards Adigrat.