Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons KCMG, CB (3 July 1863 – 13 February 1925) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Parsons was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 10 May 1882.[1] He saw active service during the Third Anglo-Burmese War and then, as an ordnance officer, during the Second Boer War.[1] He also served in the First World War and then became Principal Ordnance Officer in 1920 before retiring in 1923.[1]
Parsons was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 18 October 1924,[2] four months before his death in February 1925, aged 61.
Namesake
Parsons Barracks at Donnington near Telford, Shropshire was named for him.
References
- ^ a b c "Sir Harold Parsons". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ "Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons, K.C.M.G., C.B". Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Association. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
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