Major General Basil Aubrey Coad CB CBE DSO* DL (27 September 1906 – 26 March 1980) was a senior British Army officer. He held battalion, brigade and divisional commands during the Second World War and immediately after, but is best known as the commander of 27th British Commonwealth Brigade during the Korean War.After his involvement in Korea, he held a further divisional command, and then a senior administrative position in the army before retiring.