Lieutenant General Sir William Henry Stratton KCB, CVO, CBE, DSO (15 October 1903 – 25 November 1989) was a senior British Army officer who was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957.
Stratton was born on 15 October 1903 in British India but later went to England and, after graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 30 January 1924.
[1][2] He was deployed to the Gold Coast before becoming Assistant Instructor at the Royal School of Military Engineering in 1933.
[2] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1957 New Year Honours.
[3] His last post was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1957; he retired in 1960.