Lieutenant General Sir John Dane Woodall, KCMG, KBE, CB, MC (19 April 1897 − 7 May 1985) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District from 1952 to 1955.

[1][2] In the First World War, he served on Gallipoli and was a Staff Captain in Salonika and the Black Sea.

[3] After the war, Woodall became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for the Black Sea Area before undertaking the same role in Turkey.

[1] He then went on to be Brigade Major for the Royal Artillery in Malaya in 1934 and then an instructor at the RAF Staff College in 1938.

[1] During his time working with the Royal Air Force he co-authored the "Wane-Woodall Report", which advocated a specially trained and equipped unit for close support, a series of liaison officers, a command post and a communications system.