Otway Herbert

Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Otway Herbert, (19 November 1901 – 4 April 1984) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War and achieved high command in the 1950s.

Military career Herbert attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Artillery on 22 December 1921. He served in Egypt between 1928 and 1935. In August 1942 he joined the 132nd (Welsh) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, which formed part of the 78th "Battleaxe" Infantry Division and commanded it in the Tunisian campaign. In 1943 he joined the 21st Army Group in England and later in Northwest Europe. He was GOC-in-C Western Command from 1957 and retired from the British Army in 1960.

Family In 1925 Herbert married Muriel Irlam Barlow and together they went on to have a daughter.