Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, 5th Baronet,[1] CB, CBE (7 May 1899 – 5 November 1968[1]) was a British soldier.
[1] A fervent supporter of horseriding and fox hunting, he was killed in a riding accident at the age of 69.
He served with VIII Corps throughout Operation Overlord and was described as "a tower of strength to the new commander [O'Connor] and became a good friend as well".
[3] From October 1944 he was chief of staff of the Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery, from 1944 to 1945.
[2] The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury is named after him, as is part of the postgraduate medical centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.