H. R. C. Pettigrew

Colonel Hugh Rudolph Conway Pettigrew (1912 – 18 April 2001) was an officer in the British Indian Army whose memoir of his service with the South Waziristan Scouts on India's North-West Frontier, Frontier Scouts (1964), is a primary source for the study of the military history of that region, as his memoir "It Seemed Very Ordinary": Memoirs of Sixteen Years in the Indian Army 1932–1947 is for the history of the British Indian Army generally.

After early service policing the Indian border, he served in Burma during the Second World War where he gained experience of jungle warfare during the loss of the colony to the Japanese. He then passed on his experience at the staff college in preparation for the successful Allied campaign to recover Burma. After retiring from the army, he taught, became the principal of a school, and coached school hockey. He produced his two memoirs and in 1994 recorded an oral history for the Imperial War Museum.