Colonel Hugh Rudolph Conway Pettigrew (1912 – 18 April 2001) was an officer in the British Indian Army whose memoir of his service with the South Waziristan Scouts on India's North-West Frontier, Frontier Scouts (1964), is a primary source for the study of the military history of that region, as his memoir "It Seemed Very Ordinary": Memoirs of Sixteen Years in the Indian Army 1932–1947 is for the history of the British Indian Army generally.
After early service policing the Indian border, he served in Burma during the Second World War where he gained experience of jungle warfare during the loss of the colony to the Japanese.
He then passed on his experience at the staff college in preparation for the successful Allied campaign to recover Burma.
[4] He was attached to the Gordon Highlanders in 1932–33 after which he was company second in command with the 2nd/14th Punjab Regiment in the Khyber Pass, and at Mir Ali and Kohat on India's North-West Frontier from 1933 to 1937.
[5] After leaving the army, Pettigrew worked as a teacher and was principal of Highcliff Coaching Establishment in Selsey, West Sussex, near Chichester, which prepared boys for the Common Entrance Examination used by British private schools.