Brigadier John Field, CBE, DSO, ED (10 April 1899 – 12 May 1974) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the Second World War.

He later went on to work with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in large projects at Yallourn and the Latrobe Valley.

[1] Born on 10 April 1899 at Castlemaine, Victoria, the only son of John Woodhouse Barnett Field and his wife Emily, née Bennett.

[2] In 1932 he won the army's gold-medal essay competition with his paper, "The New Warfare", in which he wrote about the influence of modern technology on tactics.

[1] With hostilities in Europe, he worked with the 6th Military District on mobilisation plans for Tasmania before joining the Second Australian Imperial Force on 13 October 1939 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

[3] The 2/12th Battalion moved in early April to help bolster the defence of Tobruk and fought until it was withdrawn on the night of 26 and 27 August.

[2] His battalion rejoined the 7th Division in early January 1942 and sailed for Australia from Suez on 12 February arriving at Adelaide on 28 March.

Transferred to Bougainville Island in November as part of Lieutenant General Stanley Savige's II Corps.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 21 February 1946 and mentioned in despatches on 15 April 1947 for his part in the Bougainville campaign.