Major General Sir Noel Galway Holmes KBE CB MC (25 December 1891 – 24 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War and a Davis Cup tennis player for Ireland in 1930.

[1][2] Born in Galway, Ireland, on 25 December 1891, Holmes was educated at Bedford School.

During the First World War he served in France, winning the Military Cross in 1917.

In 1922 he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and, after attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1926 to 1927, served in India between 1933 and 1937.

He attended the conferences of allied war leaders in Casablanca, Washington, D.C., Quebec City, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.