Brigadier James Whitehead CB CMG CBE DSO OStJ ADC (18 January 1880–1 December 1955) was a British Indian Army officer who later became a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police.
By the beginning of 1914, Whitehead was serving as a cadet company commander at Sandhurst and on 4 February 1914 he was granted the temporary rank of major, as was normal for this post.
For his service in the First World War, Whitehead received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the 1916 Birthday Honours[8] and was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) and an Officer of the French Légion d'honneur.
He commanded the 11th Indian Infantry Brigade at Abbottabad from 1925 until 1927, when he retired from the army with the rank of brigadier.
In 1939, he was recalled to the army, serving as deputy adjutant-general with the British Expeditionary Force in France.