Lieutenant-General Sir Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE (16 April 1903 – 17 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer.
In June 1944 Coleman succeeded Whistler, who had been reassigned to command the 3rd Division, in command of the brigade, leading it throughout the campaign in North-West Europe from Normandy very nearly to the borders of Denmark by way of Falaise, Antwerp, Nijmegen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Wessem, the Ardennes, the Reichswald, the Rhine, the Weser, and Hamburg.
[7] Certainly he wrote very warmly of the achievements of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, of which his brigade formed a part, in his preface to the history of its part in the Second World War, published in 1955, and as its author makes clear, he made a considerable contribution to this account.
[8] In 1945, Coleman briefly served as the acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 53rd Division.
[2] Coleman died on 17 June 1974 in the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and was buried at St Mary's Church, Bentworth.