Major General Sir Herbert Aveling Raitt, KCIE, CB (August 1858 – 8 November 1935) was a senior British Army officer.

He was promoted to captain on 26 January 1884, and served in the Bechuanaland Expedition under Sir Charles Warren in 1885, commanding a troop of the 3rd Mounted Rifles (Diamond Fields Horse).

[4] Raitt was appointed 2nd in command of the 1st Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment on 10 March 1900, and left Southampton later the same month on the SS Briton to take command of the battalion for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

[3] He went on to be General Officer Commanding the Burma Division in October 1914 and led the response to the Kachin Rising of January and February 1915 before retiring in November 1918.

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