Military Governors of The Settlement of Penang
- 1945–1945: Peter Dicken Cracroft (1907–2003) assumed command as Military Governor of Penang on 24 September 1945 under Lord Louis Mountbatten of the British High Command at Singapore (12 September 1945. He retired 1958 and died in 2003.
- 1945–1946: Thomas John Norman Hilken (1901–1969)
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