Major General Henry Osborne Curtis, CB, DSO, MC, DL (18 November 1888 – 28 January 1964) was a British Army officer who saw service in both the First and the Second World Wars.
He was the son of Osborne Sargent Curtis, an American-born graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge,[4] and Frances Henrietta Gandy.
[1] From 1934 until 1936 he commanded British troops in Palestine before again returning to the United Kingdom and the Staff College, Camberley, again as an instructor.
[3] Curtis commanded the brigade, part of Major General Sir Harold Alexander's 1st Infantry Division, from 1938 to 1939.
Evacuated from Dunkirk, he was appointed to command the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division in June 1940,[10] which, at a reduced establishment, was detailed to occupy Iceland.