Harry Tuzo

General Sir Henry Crauford Tuzo (26 August 1917 – 7 August 1998) was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the early period of the Troubles and later Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Early life Henry Tuzo was born in Bangalore, India, on 26 August 1917, the son of John Atkinson Tuzo, a British Army officer and civil engineer, and his wife Annie Catherine (née Craufurd). Tuzo was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire (where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps ), and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read jurisprudence. Later in Germany he had the rare distinction as a battery commander of accepting the surrender of a German admiral who was Flag Officer U-boats. He was Mentioned in Despatches on 9 August 1945, and his MC was gazetted on 22 January 1946. He received substantive promotion to captain on 1 July 1946. He had married Monica Patience Salter on 5 October 1943.

Northern Ireland Tuzo was appointed as General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations, Northern Ireland, on 2 March 1971 together with promotion to lieutenant general. His appointment was made after the previous incumbent, Lieutenant General Vernon Erskine-Crum, suffered a heart attack. Tuzo was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 4 June 1971, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In 1972, after consultation with Whitehall, Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman, which sent 30,000 troops into Republican-dominated 'no-go' areas of West Belfast and Derry to take back control. Tuzo was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) on 2 June 1973.

After his service in Northern Ireland ended Tuzo was appointed Commander-in-Chief British Army of the Rhine until 1976, when he was made Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. After his service in the army he accepted a position in 1979 as chairman of Marconi Space and Defence Systems which he held until 1983.

Norfolk Tuzo was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk on 12 September 1983. He was chairman of Pensthorpe Nature Reserve. Tuzo's granddaughter is the journalist Rosie Garthwaite.