Lieutenant-General Edmund Archibald Osborne CB DSO (26 July 1885 – 1 June 1969) was a British Army officer who commanded II Corps during the Second World War.
[3] He served in the First World War, where, in September 1914, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, with the citation reading: Repeated gallantry and coolness in action on 31st October.
[4]He continued to serve with distinction during the war, being mentioned in dispatches eight times.
[1] With the war over in November 1918, he then attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1921 to 1922 and later became Commander of the School of Signals in 1926.
[3] He served in the Second World War, initially as General Officer Commanding (GOC) 44th (Home Counties) Division from April 1938 and then as GOC II Corps from 1940[5] until he retired from the British Army in 1941.