Major General James Francis Harter DSO MC (1888–1960) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.

[5] The citation for the medal appeared in The London Gazette in July that year and reads as follows:[6] For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

Having reorganised them, he planned an attack and cleared a wood of the enemy, a prompt action which had an important effect on the progress of the operations.

On several later occasions he obtained, by personal reconnaissance, most valuable information, and under difficult situations has been of the greatest assistance to battalion commanders.

He has always displayed initiative, gallantry and a soldierly instinct.Harter was Mentioned in dispatches five times [7] and was awarded the Croix de guerre in November 1918.