Major General Gervase Thorpe, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar (10 August 1877 – 4 October 1962) was a senior officer in the British Army.

Gervase Thorpe was born on 10 August 1877, the fifth son of Colonel James Thorpe (1823–1902) of Coddington Hall in Nottinghamshire and of Ardbrecknish in Argyllshire, by his second wife, Annie (died 1929), eldest daughter of John MacDougall, of Lunga in Argyllshire.

[7][8] Following schooling at Eton College,[3] Thorpe was commissioned into the British Army on 8 September 1897 as a second lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

[9] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 16 July 1899 and served in the Second Boer War; wounded, he received the Queen's and King's South Africa Medals with clasps for service at the battles of Modder River and Pandaardeberg, and in Transvaal and South Africa (1901 and 1902).

Promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel on 1 January 1917,[12] Thorpe remained as a GSO until 7 June 1918, when he became a brigade commander with the temporary rank of brigadier general.