Harry Grimshaw

Major-General Ewing Henry Wrigley Grimshaw, (30 June 1911 – 1 November 2007) was a senior British Indian Army and British Army officer who served in the Second World War and achieved high office in the 1960s.

Early life Grimshaw was born in India, the son of an army officer. He was educated at Brighton College before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Military career On 29 January 1931, Grimshaw commissioned into the 1st Punjab Regiment, garrisoned in India. He first saw active service in the Waziristan campaign (1936–39) and against terrorists in Bengal. In 1939, Grimshaw was serving with the 1st Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, and was posted with it to Iraq and Libya. He fought in the Western Desert campaign, during which he was mentioned in despatches, before his unit was transferred to Burma in early 1943. Grimshaw commanded the brigade in Cyprus in operations against EOKA in 1958. This was followed by a staff appointment in the War Office, after which he was promoted to major general. His final commanded was of the 44th (Home Counties) Division in 1962, which carried with it the appointment of Deputy Constable of Dover Castle. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1965, when he retired.

Appointed on 1 September, between 1966 and 1968 he was Colonel of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Personal life In 1943, Grimshaw married Hilda Allison, who died in 1993. They had two sons and a daughter; his elder son, Colonel Ewing Grimshaw, died in 1996.