Harold Pyman

General Sir Harold English "Pete" Pyman, GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar (12 March 1908 – 9 October 1971) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War and achieved high office in the 1960s.

[2] Pyman served in the Second World War, initially as an instructor at the Staff College in Quetta in India from 1939 moving on to be a General Staff Officer in 7th Armoured Division in North Africa in 1942.

[2] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 3rd Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa in 1942.

[2] Pyman became General Officer Commanding 11th Armoured Division in Germany in 1953 and Director of Weapons and Development at the War Office in 1955 before becoming General Officer Commanding 1st British Corps within British Army of the Rhine in 1956 and Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff in 1958.

[2] He was appointed Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe in 1961;[3] he retired in 1964.

Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall , pictured here on the left with Brigadier Harold Pyman, sometime in 1944.