Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford, CBE, DSO (18 June 1882 – 22 January 1972) was a senior officer in the British Army during the Second World War, who served an advisor to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

[4] Sandford arrived on the Western Front in France as a captain in February 1915, and by May 1916 had been promoted to the rank of major and was Officer Commanding the 94th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, leading it in action from the attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme (1 July 1916) until he was posted to command the 355th Siege Battery in September 1918.

In August 1939, the head of the Middle East Command in Cairo, General Sir Archibald Wavell, summoned Sandford for duty.

[8] Later in the war and in its immediate aftermath, Sandford served again as advisor to Emperor Selassie, both in military and political roles.

[citation needed] After his retirement, Sandford devoted all his energies to farming the plot of land leased to him by Haile Selassie at Mulo (sometimes spelled Mulu, but not to be confused with Mulu in Sitti Zone) near the town Derba, 60  km north of Addis Ababa, planting among others, coffee and plum trees, and building stables for cattle.

[9] After Selassie was overthrown by the Derg regime in 1974, the farm was nationalized, and more stables were built to increase the number of cattle.