Brigadier-General Sir George Henry Gater GCMG KCB DSO & Bar JP (26 December 1886 – 14 January 1963) was a senior British Army officer and civil servant.

[2] After he achieved fourth in classical moderations (1907), he graduated with a second-class degree in modern history in 1909, and then took a diploma in education.

Upon the outbreak of the First World War, Gater enlisted as a second lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters, his local regiment.

[6] Whilst commanding the battalion at Messines, he sustained a wound in the mouth and ear by a shell splinter but remained on duty, and for this he was awarded a bar to his DSO.

He was wounded twice, mentioned in dispatches four times, awarded a DSO in the 1916 Birthday Honours when a temporary major[8] and a bar in September 1917 when temporary lieutenant colonel,[9] made a commander of the Légion d'honneur, awarded the French Croix de Guerre in November 1918,[10] and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1919 New Year Honours.

In later parts of the war he was involved in secret deliberations of the British government regarding possible postwar solutions to the question of Palestine and had contacts with the Zionist leader Chaim Weitzman.