Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall

Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (22 February 1889 – 18 November 1979) was an officer in the British Army during the First and Second World Wars.

[2][3] He served in the First World War in France and Belgium, becoming Commanding Officer of 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1917.

[4] After the war he became a lieutenant colonel in the Machine Gun Corps and then a General Staff Officer for Weapon Training in Scottish Command in 1930.

In late 1941, with the campaign all but over, the 11th African Division was disbanded and he became General Officer Commanding the East Africa Force.

[2] After the war he became Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon at a time when the Sri Lankan independence struggle was ongoing; he retired in 1946.