Major General Michael Forrester, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (31 August 1917 – 15 October 2006) was a British Army officer who served with distinction in the Second World War and later commanded the 4th Division.
Educated at Haileybury,[1] Forrester was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in 1938[2] and, serving with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment, then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ross, took part in the response to the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1939.
[1] Forrester served in the Second World War in Greece and in the Western Desert before becoming commanding officer of the 1/6th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment in 1943; in that role he secured the key bridge at Scafati in Italy and then took part in the Normandy landings before being wounded there in October 1944.
[1] Forrester was appointed commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment and served in Cyprus and Egypt during 1951 and 1952.
[2] In 1947 Forrester married Pauline Fisher (the marriage was dissolved in 1960); they had two sons.