Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour

General Sir Robert George Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, DL (15 September 1913 – 28 December 1994) was a senior officer in the British Army.

FitzGeorge-Balfour fought in the Second World War, serving in North Africa, Sicily and North-West Europe as a staff officer with XXX Corps.

[11] That same month, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East".

[12] For his command of the battalion during the Malayan Emergency, he was Mentioned in Despatches on 13 December 1949 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order on 18 September 1950.

[5] He went on to be Director of Military Operations in 1964, Senior Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College in 1967 and Vice Chief of the General Staff in 1968.

[19] He was appointed Colonel Commandant of The Honourable Artillery Company, a Territorial Army unit, on 2 August 1976.