Edmund Hakewill-Smith

Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith
Born	17 March 1896
Died	15 April 1986 (aged 90)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1915–1949
Rank	Major General
Unit	Royal Scots Fusiliers
Commands held	5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers 157th Infantry Brigade 155th Infantry Brigade 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Commander with Star of the Royal Order of St. Olav Grand Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau

Major General Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith KCVO CB CBE DSO MC (17 March 1896 – 15 April 1986) was a senior British Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II.

Hakewill-Smith was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, on 17 March 1896, he was educated at the Diocesan College ("Bishops") in Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Scots Fusiliers on 16 June 1915, during World War I. He served on the Western Front where he was wounded twice and, during the final Hundred Days Offensive in the latter half of 1918, and was awarded the Military Cross.

After the war he remained in the army and served with the British Military Mission to South Russia in 1920, and in 1921 he was aide-de-camp to Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland (Governor of Bengal, India). He later served as an adjutant to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers between 1927–1930, and was a student at the Staff College, Quetta from 1932–1933. He later served on the staff of the War Office from 1934–1936.

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