Brigadier William Bain Thomas CBE DSO (11 May 1898 – 22 November 1967) was a British Army officer who commanded the Polish Resettlement Corps after the Second World War.
Thomas was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 7 April 1916, during the First World War (1914–1918).
[3] He saw extensive action during the Burma Campaign and in October 1942 took command of the 49th Indian Infantry Brigade.
He then returned to commanding the 1st Battalion, Cameronians, in which capacity he accepted the surrender of the Japanese general, Shinichi Tanaka, in Singapore on 15 December 1945.
In June 1946 he was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and he retired from the army in February 1952 with the rank of brigadier.