Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell CBE, DSO & Bar, ED (9 March 1890 – 18 June 1966) was an Australian soldier and politician.
During the First World War, he served with the 4th Brigade, attaining the rank of major and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
He was on the army staff at headquarters from 1938 to 1939, when he returned to active duty as a brigadier and commander of the 10th and 26th brigades, serving at Tobruk, El Alamein and in New Guinea.
He was mentioned in despatches thrice (making five times in total), one of them in June 1942,[3] and again in December that year,[4] awarded a bar to the DSO in 1942, and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in early 1943.
In 1945, Tovell was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Brighton, and from 1948 to 1950 he was Minister of Public Instruction.