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{{Infobox military person
|name=Sir Harold Redman
|image=File:Sir-Harold-Redman.jpg
|image_size=175px
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|birth_date=25 August 1899
|death_date=1986 (aged 86−87)
|birth_place=
|death_place=[[Esher]], [[Surrey]], England
|placeofburial=
|nickname=
|allegiance=United Kingdom
|branch=[[British Army]]
|serviceyears=1917–58
|rank=[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]
|unit=[[Royal Artillery]] [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]]
|commands=[[10th Indian Motor Brigade]] [[151st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|151st Infantry Brigade]] 7th Battalion [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]]
|battles=[[First World War]] [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]] [[Second World War]]
|awards=[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Mentioned in Despatches]] [[Legion of Merit|Commander of the Legion of Merit]] (United States)
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}}
[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Sir Harold Redman''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|CBE}} (25 August 1899 – 1986) was a senior [[British Army]] officer and [[Governor of Gibraltar]].

==Military career==
Redman was [[commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[Royal Artillery]] 28 February 1917.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/REDMAN1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]</ref> He served in the [[First World War]] in France and Belgium during 1918 and later Germany.<ref name=lh/><ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946">Half Yearly Army List January 1946</ref>

He served in India and was the [[aide-de-camp]] to the General Officer Commanding Waziristan Force from 20 November 1923 to 19 October 1924, for which he was [[mentioned in despatches]] (London Gazette 13 March 1925).<ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

He transferred to the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]] in February 1929, whilst attending the [[Staff College, Camberley]] from 1929 to 1930, alongside fellow students such as [[Neil Ritchie]], [[George Erskine]], [[Ivor Hughes]], [[Harold Freeman-Attwood]], [[Herbert Lumsden]].<ref name=lh/>

He became an instructor at the Senior Officers' School at [[Sheerness]] in October 1937 and then moved on to be an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley from 15 November 1938 to 13 August 1939.<ref name=lh/><ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

He served on the staff at the War Office from 14 August 1939 to 2 July 1940.<ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

He served in the [[Second World War]], being appointed [[Commanding Officer]] of 7th Battalion [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]] in July 1940.<ref name=lh/> Then in February 1941 he became [[Commander]] [[151st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|151st Infantry Brigade]] until 12 December 1941 which took him to [[North Africa]], [[Cyprus]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref name=lh/><ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

He was made a [[Brigadier]] on the [[General Staff]] of the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|British Eighth Army]] in North Africa from 13 December 1941 to 27 March 1942.<ref name=lh/><ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

On 30 March 1942 he became Commander of [[10th Indian Motor Brigade]] until 1 March 1943 after which he went on to be British Secretary to [[Combined Chiefs of Staff]] in [[Washington D.C.]]<ref name=lh/> He was appointed Deputy Commander for the French Forces of the Interior in 1944 and Deputy Head of Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force Mission to France later that year.<ref name=lh/><ref name="Half Yearly Army List January 1946"/>

After the war he initially became Head of the British Military Mission to France and then in 1946 he became [[Chief of Staff]] to Allied Land Forces South East Asia.<ref name=lh/> He was made Director of Military Operations at the [[War Office]] in 1948 and Principal Staff Officer to the [[Supreme Allied Commander Europe]] in 1951.<ref name=lh/>

He was made [[Vice Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Vice-Chief Imperial General Staff]] in 1952 and [[Governor of Gibraltar|Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Gibraltar]] in 1955.<ref name=lh/> He retired in 1958.<ref name=lh/>

In retirement he became the first Director and Secretary of the [[Wolfson Foundation]] in 1958.<ref>[http://www.wolfson.org.uk/pdf/historical.pdf ''The Wolfson Foundation 1955–2005 – A Historical Perspective'', Page 4] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091230015003/http://www.wolfson.org.uk/pdf/historical.pdf |date=30 December 2009 }}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}

==External links==
*[https://generals.dk/general/Redman/Harold/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]

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