Brigadier General Harold Douglas Briggs, CMG (29 September 1877 – 13 September 1944) was a senior Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer who played a leading role in British naval aviation during the First World War.
After joining the Royal Navy as a young man, Briggs showed steady career progression and by 1908 was on the staff of the Admiral Commanding Coast Guards and Reserves.
In 1915 Briggs was appointed Officer-in-Command of Air Stations under the Admiral Commanding the East Coast of England.
After only three months in post Briggs was reassigned again, this time as the Officer Commanding RNAS Vendome, a Royal Naval Air Service flight training school in France.
[2] Briggs retired from the Navy in 1922,[3] and the RAF granted him the honorary rank of brigadier general.