Erima Northcroft

Sir Erima Harvey Northcroft DSO VD (2 December 1884 – 10 October 1953) was a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and military leader.

[1] During World War I, Northcroft was an artillery officer in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours.

After the Second World War, Northcroft was appointed as the New Zealand judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.

[1] In recognition of this service, Northcroft was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1949 King's Birthday Honours.

[7] After his death his papers went to the Justice Erima Harvey Northcroft Tokyo War Crimes Trial Collection at the University of Canterbury, which was added to the Asia Pacific regional section of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2010.