Lieutenant General Sir Desmond Francis Anderson KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 July 1885 – 29 January 1967) was a senior British Army officer in both the First and the Second World Wars.

[1] Following the outbreak of the First World War, Anderson went with the battalion to the Western Front in 1914, where he served until July 1917 in a number of combat and staff roles, including as a GSO3 in May 1915,[2] during which time he was wounded and received the Distinguished Service Order in February 1915.

[4] After attending staff college, Anderson was appointed Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in 1927, Assistant Quartermaster General at Aldershot Command in 1932 and General Staff Officer Grade 1 at 5th Division in 1933.

[1] At the outbreak of the Second World War, Anderson was major-general on the General Staff for the Home Forces.

[1] During 1942 he went to Baghdad, where III Corps were part of Persia and Iraq Command's Tenth Army.