Major-General Harold Whitla Higginson CB, DSO & Bar (10 November 1873 – 30 October 1954) was a British Army officer.
Born in British India in 1873, the son of Colonel Theophilus Higginson, and educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Higginson was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in October 1894.
[7] He became commanding officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers on the Western Front during the First World War, for which he was later appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 14 January 1916.
[11] The bar's citation reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while commanding his brigade.
The courageous stands made by them were of great assistance to other brigades.He continued to command his division during the Hundred Days Offensive in autumn 1918 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1919 New Year Honours.