World War II: Major-General Robert Francis Brydges Naylor, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (6 October 1889 – 23 December 1971) was a general officer in the British Army.

[2] He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[3] and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment on 18 September 1909.

[1] During the Great War Naylor served on the Western Front, where he was mentioned in despatches seven times,[3] and awarded the Military Cross.

[7] He was promoted to captain on 26 May 1915,[1] and acting major on 15 March 1917,[8] but relinquished the rank on ceasing to command a divisional signals company in November 1917.

[9] However, he was promoted to honorary major on 1 January 1918,[10] and acting lieutenant colonel on 12 May 1918 as assistant director of signals at BEF GHQ.