title: James Harter
text: # James Harter
  
  Major General James Francis Harter DSO MC (1888–1960) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.
  
  ## Military career
  
  Harter served with Royal Fusiliers in World War I, being wounded in 1914 and then, as a captain, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918.
  
  Attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1924 to 1925, during World War II he commanded a formation in the North Midlands. He later served as colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.
  
  