The photo isn’t like others I’ve seen of him and the features aren’t all quite the same but, allowing for lighting and angles and a studio portrait, the drooping right eyelid is reminiscent of Bill Slim. So I’ll offer Bill Slim as the answer.
Whoever it is might be wearing a uniform of a British officer in some other guise, such as a Viceroy or lesser personage in India or some other place where Britain ruled or had a presence.
Hmmm… that’s an unsubtle hint if ever I saw one.
Oh, thank you, my dear Mr. Pdf 27, although I have to admit - fairly and squarely! – that you are excessively generous. You know, actually I was inspired by certain judgments previously revealed by late Oliver St. John Gogarty, who – like myself – was subjected to the ultimate rigors of orthodoxy in education. :roll:
Still, I’ve not seen No.1 dress with collar boards like that on a British uniform before
Well, in that case just compare those magnificent gold collar tendrils with these, which are accessible here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Viscount_Garnet_Joseph_Wolseley.jpeg
I’m sure that everything will be much more comprehensible. 
So I’ll offer Bill Slim as the answer.
Alas, my dear Mr. Rising Sun, our mysterious personality is not The Right Honuorable Sir William Slim. However, your favorite and mine are evenly sharing the very same military rank. 
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
So two days later we still don’t know.
So sorry for my late reply, honorable ladies and gentlemen, but due to some unknown technical reasons this web-site was completely unaccesible for me in last 48 hours! :-?
And yes – Mr. Gumalangi was absolutely right: late Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, The Right Honorable 6th Viscount Gort was our mysterious personality.
It is your turn now, my dear Mr. Gumalangi – please, proceed!
One of the most resourceful and able commanders of his military formation,…
Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny?
Bruno Bräuer?
no sirs,.
neither both of them,…
his formation one of the most notorious yet formidable,…
Was his formation German?
Are you using formation in the sense of a division or bigger?
definetely bigger,. it is rather a branch,. the 5th of armed branch i would say
other than army, navy, airforce and police force,…
and yes,. it was german
Is it SS-Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer called “Panzermeyer”?
No, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy: our mysterious personality is SS Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche. Here you have the original snapshot:
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8004/escanear00039eg.jpg
From left to the right: Kurt “Panzer” Meyer, Fritz Witt, Max Wünsche.
Allright, but I was very close (-:
very well then sir,. have it your turn,…
Thank you, my dear Mr. Gumalangi. Well, honorable ladies and gentlemen, do you recognize this undeservedly forgotten personality, whose patriotic devotion, innovative aptitude and daring goodliness had indemnified numerous significant deficiencies of the IJN?
Sōkichi Takagi ?
sadamichi kajioka