Sir Harold Parsons | |
Birth Date: | 3 July 1863 |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Serviceyears: | 1882–1923 |
Rank: | Major general |
Battles: | Third Anglo-Burmese War Second Boer War First World War |
Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons KCMG, CB (3 July 1863 – 13 February 1925) was a British Army officer.
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.
Parsons Barracks at Donnington near Telford, Shropshire was named for him.