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{{Short description|British general (1857–1939)}}
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| name          = Sir Robert Scallon
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| birth_date          =3 April 1857
| death_date          ={{dda|1 May 1939|3 April 1857|df=y}}
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| birth_place  = [[Long Ditton]], Surrey, England
| death_place  = [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], Worcestershire, England
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| allegiance    ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch        =[[British Indian Army|Indian Army]]
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| rank          =[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]
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| commands      =[[123rd Outram's Rifles|23rd Bombay Rifles]]<br/>3rd Indian Brigade<br/>British troops in Aden<br/>[[Bangalore Brigade]]<br/>[[Burma Division]]<br/>[[8th (Lucknow) Division]]<br/>[[Northern Command (India)|Northern Army, India]]<br/>[[Southern Command (India)|Southern Army, India]]
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* [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]
* [[Anglo-Burmese Wars|Burma Campaign]] (1886)
* [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]]
** [[Tirah Campaign]]
* [[World War I]]
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|awards         =[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br/>[[Distinguished Service Order]]
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[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Sir Robert Irvin Scallon''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|KCIE|DSO}} (3 April 1857 – 1 May 1939) was a British officer in the [[Indian Army]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: General Sir Robert Scallon |work=[[The Times]] |date=2 May 1939 |page= 16}}</ref>

==Military career==
Scallon was commissioned into the British Army in 1876 and joined the [[72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders|72nd Highlanders]] in 1877.<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/SCALLON.shtml Sir Robert Irvin Scallon] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> He transferred to the Bombay Staff Corps in 1877 and took part in the [[Battle of Kandahar (1880)|Battle of Kandahar]] in 1880 during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]].<ref name=lh/> He became adjutant of the [[123rd Outram's Rifles|23rd Bombay Light Infantry]] in 1881 and took part in the Burma Campaign in 1886.<ref name=lh/> He became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at [[Pune|Poona]] in 1891, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in 1895 and Inspector General of the Imperial Service Troops in 1897.<ref name=lh/>

Scallon took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]] in 1897 and became Commanding Officer of the [[123rd Outram's Rifles|23rd Bombay Rifles]] in 1898.<ref name=lh/> He commanded the Zhob Section of Blockading Force for the [[Mahsud]] Waziri expedition in 1900.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)|Lieutenant-colonel]] on 12 February 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27428 |page=2794 |date=25 April 1902}}</ref> and went on to command troops in the Zhob District during disturbances in 1902 and to command troops during operations in the [[Aden]] Hinterland in 1903.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed Commander of 3rd Indian Brigade in India in 1904, General Officer Commanding Aden in 1905 and Commander of the [[Bangalore Brigade]] in 1906.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to major general in December 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28001|page=1576|date=5 March 1907}}</ref>

Scallon became [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General, India]] in 1908, Secretary to Government of India, Army Department in 1909 and General Officer Commanding [[Burma Division]] in 1911, the same year he was promoted to lieutenant general,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28562|page=9450|date=15 December 1911}}</ref> before becoming General Officer Commanding [[8th (Lucknow) Division]] in 1913.<ref name=lh/> He served in [[World War I]] as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Army]] in India in 1914 and then as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief [[Southern Command (India)|Southern Army]] in 1915 before retiring in 1919.<ref name=lh/>

In retirement Scallon worked in high positions in the [[The Scout Association|Boy Scouts]] and the [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]].<ref>[http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/103968 Medal Circular, December 2000, London]</ref>

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