Harold Parsons

Major-General Sir Harold Daniel Edmund Parsons KCMG CB (3 July 1863 – 13 February 1925) was a British Army officer.

Military career Parsons was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) as a lieutenant on 10 May 1882. He saw active service during the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885, was promoted to captain on 12 April 1891, and to major on 29 September 1898.

After transfer as an ordnance officer in April 1900, he served in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

He also served in the First World War, being promoted to honorary major general on 1 January 1917, and then became principal ordnance officer in 1920 before retiring in 1923. 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.