Harold Parsons


Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons KCMG, CB was a British Army officer.

Military career

Parsons was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment on 10 May 1882. He saw active service during the Third Anglo-Burmese War and then, as an ordnance officer, during the Second Boer War. He also served in the First World War and then became Principal Ordnance Officer in 1920 before retiring in 1923.
Parsons was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 18 October 1924, four months before his death in February 1925, aged 61.

Namesake

Parsons Barracks at Donnington near Telford, Shropshire was named for him.