Roland Le Fanu


Roland Le Fanu was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Le Fanu was commissioned into the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and saw service during the First World War. He became a staff officer at the War Office in March 1931 and was then deployed to the Rawalpindi District in India in December 1935. He was appointed a companion of the Distinguished Service Order for his service during the Waziristan campaign. He went on to become General Officer Commanding 15th Infantry Division in August 1939 at the start of the Second World War before retiring in October 1940.
His son, Sir Victor de Fanu, served as Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons in the 1980s.