Brigadier Edward Henry Walford Backhouse CBE DL (7 February 1895 – 20 November 1973) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars and was unlucky enough to have been taken prisoner in both conflicts.

[2][1] He was posted to the regiment's 2nd Battalion, then stationed in Curragh, Ireland, as part of the 14th Brigade of Major-General Charles Fergusson's 5th Division.

[1] Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Backhouse, after being promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier on 28 August,[1] took command of the 54th Infantry Brigade, a newly created second-line Territorial Army (TA) unit which formed part of the 18th Infantry Division.

[1] After training in the United Kingdom for just over two years, the brigade, along with the rest of the 18th Division, was deployed to British Malaya.

He was released from capture at the end of the war and in 1946 he was mentioned in dispatches for his leadership during the fall of Singapore in 1942.