General Sir Geoffrey Randolph Dixon Musson, GCB, CBE, DSO (9 June 1910 – 10 January 2008) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War and the Korean War and later became Adjutant-General to the Forces in the late 1960s.
Educated at Shrewsbury School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Geoffrey Musson was commissioned into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1930.
[1] During the Second World War he served in North Africa and Italy.
[2] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in May 1944 for making an assault crossing of the Gari River, establishing a bridgehead on the far bank, covering the construction of ferries to allow the rest of the brigade to cross and then securing an important vantage point overlooking Monte Cassino.
[1] He then served as Chief of Staff of Middle East Land Forces from 1959 to 1962.