Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus KCB CMG DSO (20 May 1876 – 24 October 1947) was a British Army officer and an English first-class cricketer.

After studying medicine at Durham University, Fawcus was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps.

[2] He served in South Africa around 1910, during which he made his debut in first-class cricket for Orange Free State against Transvaal in the 1910/11 Currie Cup.

[7] He was promoted to the rank of major in May 1911,[8] He was appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant Professor of Hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College,[9] a role he undertook from 1912 to 1914.

[16][1] He was appointed as the honorary physician to George V in January 1923, following the retirement of Sir Alfred Blenkinsop.

[17] He was promoted to the full rank of colonel in June 1926,[18] with appointment in the same month as a deputy director-general at the War Office.

[21] He was appointed as the director-general of Army Medical Services in September 1929,[1] at which point he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general.

[1] He was appointed as the colonel commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps in December 1938,[27] a ceremonial role he would hold until he relinquished it in August 1941 on account of ill health.

[29] He died at the age of 71 at Hillingdon in October 1947, with his funeral service carried out in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks.