Lieutenant-General Sir (William) John Eldridge KBE CB DSO MC (2 March 1898 – 3 November 1985) was a senior British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.
Eldridge was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1915 during World War I and served in France and Belgium.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross in September 1917 for his actions during the war,[2] and the Distinguished Service Order in January 1919.[3]
After the war he was involved in operations in Iraq.[1] He attended the Staff College, Camberley, alongside future general officers such as William Dimoline, Leslie Lockhart and Ashton Wade, from 1933 to 1934.[4][5] He also served in World War II and was deployed to Italy in 1944.[1]
He became Director General of Artillery at the Ministry of Supply in 1945 and Commandant of the Royal Military College of Science in 1948.[1] He was made General Officer Commanding Aldershot District in 1951 and Controller of Munitions at the Ministry of Supply in 1953; he retired in 1957.[1]
He was a Founder Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.[6]