C.R.H. Kindersley

Claude Richard Henry Kindersley DSO MC DL (11 December 1911 – 31 March 1993) was a British soldier.

Kindersley was the son of Lt-Col Archibald Ogilvie Lyttelton Kindersley CMG, and his wife Edith Mary Kindersley (née Craven).He was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in 1933.He served with the 2nd Battalion of the HLI North-West Frontier, Palestine and Middle East from 1936–43.He was awarded the Military Cross in 1943.He continued his career with the 1st Battalion in France and Germany, 1944–45, where he was awarded the DSO.He commanded the 1st Bn in 1945.

After the war he was a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire from 1962–74 and for the Isle of Wight from 1974 when the island became a separate county from Hants.He was the first High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight 1974–75.

In 1938 he married Vivien Mary, daughter of late Charles John Wharton Darwin of Elston Hall Notts; they had three daughters.