Major-General Cecil Llewellyn Firbank, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DL (1903–1985) was a British Army officer.
Born in Oakhill, Mendip District, Somerset, Firbank entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry on 30 January 1924.
Eric Bols and Robert King were among his fellow graduates, both also future major-generals.
[1] During the Second World War, he commanded the 2nd Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment in North West Europe in 1944 and then commanded the 71st Infantry Brigade also in North West Europe from April 1945 during the Second World War[2] for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order & Bar.
[7] He was honorary colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry from 1963 to 1968.