Brigadier Reginald Howlett CBE DSO MC (1882 – 20 October 1942) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.

Howlett was commissioned as a second lieutenant in The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) on 11 August 1900.

[2] He saw active service in South Africa during the Second Boer War, and was invalided home three months after the end of the war, in September 1902.

[3] He returned to regular service with his regiment in November 1902.

[4] He served in the First World War latterly as commanding officer of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Green Howards[5] and then as commanding officer of the 12th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.