Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly, KBE, CB, DSO (19 March 1913 – 5 January 2004) was a senior Australian Army officer, whose career culminated with his appointment as Chief of the General Staff (1966–1971).

[1] Born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 19 March 1913, Daly originally planned to become a doctor; however, having failed to gain entry into the university course of his choice, he entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1930.

He married Heather Fitzgerald in 1946 and in 1948 went to England to attend the Joint Services Staff College (UK).

A posting to Duntroon followed and in June 1952 Daly took command of the 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade – a formation comprising two British and two Australian battalions – then fighting in Korea.

[6] Daly was promoted to major general in 1959, and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1965.