Brigadier General Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander CB, CMG, DSO (8 February 1878 – 23 May 1959)[1] was a British Army officer and military historian, noted for his works on the First World War.

[5][6][7] He served with the West African Frontier Force in the Third Ashanti Expedition and was mentioned in Colonel James Willcocks' despatch for his good work during an attack on the fortified village of Obassa during the fierce fighting on 30 September that effectively ended the campaign.

[8] After the Ashanti campaign, Aspinall was granted a regular commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers (RMF) backdated to April 1900 but did not join the regiment until October 1900.

[15] On 7 August 1916 he was appointed chief of staff (GSO1) of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, involved in the final phase of the Somme operations and the at Arras and Ypres in 1917.

Graham & Bidwell write that in 1924 Aspinall-Oglander, assisted by JFC Fuller, then a senior instructor at Camberley Staff College, published on behalf of the War Office “Volume II (Operations)”, which from the context appears to have been an extension of the recent republication of the prewar Field Service Regulations.