Major General Philip George Saxon Gregson-Ellis, CB, OBE (31 August 1898 – 20 October 1956) was a senior British Army officer who saw active service during both the First World War and the Second World War, where he commanded the 5th Infantry Division during the Italian Campaign in 1944.

Born in Edinburgh in August 1898, and coming from a military family, Philip Gregson-Ellis was educated at Eton College and later entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst during the First World War.

It was from here that he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Grenadier Guards in December 1917,[1] and with whom he saw service on the Western Front.

He then assumed command of the 1st (Guards) Brigade in July, which was then serving in North Africa.

[3] He was appointed GOC 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division in 1947 and finally retired from the British Army in 1950.