Major General Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood, DSO, OBE, MC (30 December 1897 – 22 September 1963) was a British Army officer who fought in both of the world wars.
[2] He served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, part of the 22nd Brigade of the 7th Division, a Regular Army unit, on the Western Front, where he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) during the Battle of Passchendaele in August 1917, the citation for which reads: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion during three attacks, the third of which, mainly owing to his personal courage and resource, was successful.
[6] At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Freeman-Attwood (having added Attwood to his name in 1937)[5] by now a lieutenant colonel, was serving as a General Staff Officer (GSO) with the 50th (Northumbrian) Motor Division, a TA formation.
[4] The division, recruiting from the North Midlands and the West Riding of Yorkshire, was composed of the 137th, 138th and 139th Infantry Brigades and divisional troops.
[7] Freeman-Attwood divorced in 1945, and remarried to Marion Louise the following year, he retired to Nottinghamshire where he was involved in politics and active for the Conservative Party.