Lieutenant Colonel Richard Edmond Courtney CB VD (8 September 1870 – 21 October 1919) was an Australian Soldier in World War I. Courtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery is named after a position in the Anzac sector named after him during the Battle of Gallipoli. He was born in Castlemaine, Victoria and educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He enrolled into Melbourne Law School in 1889 and qualified as a solicitor.