Sir Gerald Kennedy Nicholas Trevaskis, KCMG, OBE (1 January 1915 – 14 March 1990) was a British colonial official and army officer.
[1][2] Trevaskis saw active service during the Second World War as a soldier and then officer in the Northern Rhodesia Regiment.
In August 1940, he was captured by the Italian forces while serving in British Somaliland, becoming a prisoner of war (POW).
Having been released in 1941, he spent the rest of the war serving with the British Military Administration of Eritrea.
[1] On 10 December 1963, Trevaskis came under attack from the Yemeni National Liberation Front (NLF).