Major General John Hedley Thornton Priestman, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (22 July 1885 – 22 February 1964) was a senior officer in the British Army.
Mentioned in Despatches three times during the war, he received the French Croix de guerre,[1] the Distinguished Service Order in 1917,[2] and the Military Cross.
He served as Officer of a Company of Gentleman Cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from July 1914 to February 1916; that April, he was posted as a Staff Captain in France for two months, before succeeding Brevet Major Harold Franklyn as a brigade major from June[8] until September.
From April 1919, Priestman was Commander of a Company of Gentleman Cadets at the Royal Military College and a General Staff Officer.
He was promoted to the rank of major general on 27 December 1937, became an Aide-de-Camp to the King on 17 November 1937, serving for 10 months, and Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment on 3 June 1938.