Harold Clive Disher, CBE, ED (15 October 1891 – 13 March 1976) was an Australian Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars, a medical practitioner, a champion rower, and a pastoralist.

He stroked the first AIF eight which won the championship race at the 1919 Henley Royal Peace Regatta, and received the 1919 Helms Award for the most outstanding amateur athlete from Australasia.

He was the third and youngest child of Henry Robert Disher, a grazier, and his wife Mary Louise née Hagenauer.

[1] He married Doris Parks Kitson, a nurse, at St John's Anglican Church in East Malvern on 6 November 1926.

He was placed on the unattached list on 1 July 1936, but was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS) of the 2nd Cavalry Division on 17 August 1936.

On 1 October 1938, he became the Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS) of the 2nd Cavalry Division, with the temporary rank of colonel.

[3] He was in charge of the medical arrangements for the Battle of Bardia,[12] for which he was mentioned in despatches,[13] and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 4 July 1941.

[3]After serving in the Battle of Greece in April and May 1941, Disher embarked for Australia on 1 August 1941, where he became ADMS of the 1st Armoured Division.

[1] After the war, Disher retired from medicine and moved to an 800-hectare (2,000-acre) sheep and cattle grazing property on the shores of Lake Wellington in Gippsland that his grandfather had acquired in 1869, and of which he had become owner on the death of his father on 31 May 1944.

[1][17][19] The Disher Challenge Cup, an annual rowing race for eight-oared boats on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin that is contested by the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and the Australian National University, was named in his honour; Disher presented the cup to the inaugural winners in 1971.