Major-General Sir Cyril Harry Colquhoun KCVO, CB, OBE (1903 – 5 June 1996) was a British Army officer.
[2] He was deployed to France as Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, in the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division with the British Expeditionary Force in 1939[1] at the start of the Second World War and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation[1] for which he was mentioned in dispatches.
[4] After that he become General Officer Commanding, Malta in November 1956 before retiring in December 1959.
[4] In retirement he served as Secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood from 1960 to 1968 and, in that capacity, advised on commissioning the Sovereign's insignia and the Chancellor's Chain of Office for the new Order of Canada.
[5] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1955 New Year Honours,[6] appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1965 New Year Honours,[7] and advanced to Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1968 Birthday Honours.