Major-General Frederick Elliot Hotblack DSO & Bar MC (12 March 1887 – 9 January 1979) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the First World War as an early member of the Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) and commanded the 2nd Armoured Division in the early part of the Second World War.

In November, while a temporary Captain he guided a tank to its objective by walking ahead of it despite enemy fire.

[6] The citation for his bar, appearing in The London Gazette in July 1918, reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack.

He reorganised the infantry whose officers had become casualties, collected tanks, and succeeded in launching a fresh attack under heavy fire.

While assessing the front, he found a German position blocking the advance and organised two tanks into action against it, riding in one of them himself.