Harold Carrington

Lieutenant General Sir Robert Harold Carrington, KCB, DSO (7 November 1882 – 5 September 1964) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Harold Carrington was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1901; he served in the Second Boer War between 1901 and 1902 and then transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery in 1908.^[2] He served during the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916.^[3]

Carrington remained in the army after the war, attending the Staff College, Camberley in 1920.^[4] He then became a General Staff Officer with the 4th Infantry Division, before moving on to become Commander, of Royal Artillery for the division in 1932.^[2] In 1936 he became a major general with command of the Royal Artillery at Army Headquarters in India.^[2] In 1939 he became Deputy Adjutant General at the War Office and in 1940 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle: he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1941 New Year Honours,^[5] before retiring later that year.^[2]

Carrington was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1940 to 1950.^[2]

In retirement Carrington worked for the Ministry of Supply from 1942 to 1945.^[2] He was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk from 1953 to 1954.^[6]

• Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1844150496.

• Generals of World War II