Major-General Lionel Howard Cox CB CBE MC (1 April 1893 – 29 July 1949) was a British Army officer.
[1] Cox saw action with the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps, earning recognition with the award of the Military Cross, during the First World War.
[2] He served as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment between 1935 and 1938.
[3] After that he became General Officer Commanding 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division also in the UK in September 1944 and District Officer Commanding Singapore District in 1945 before retiring in 1948.
[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1945 Birthday Honours.