Raymond Briggs CB DSO (19 January 1895 – 4 April 1985) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and the Second World Wars.
During the latter he led the 1st Armoured Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in late 1942, and throughout the subsequent Tunisian campaign.
Briggs served in the First World War with the British Army's Machine Gun Corps, receiving his commission in 1915.
[14][7] He continued to command the division throughout the Tunisian campaign, which ended in May 1943, and he was again mentioned in dispatches on 24 June 1943.
[15] With the conclusion of the campaign, he was dismissed by his superior, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, the Eighth Army commander.