Robert Collins

Major-General Robert John Collins, (22 August 1880 – 6 March 1950) was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, from 1939 to 1941.

Military career Educated at Marlborough College, Collins, after service with the 6th Warwick Militia during the Second Boer War, was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1899. He fought in the Second Boer War and then served with the Egyptian Army until 1911 and attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1913 to 1914, where J. F. C. Fuller was one of his fellow students.

Collins took part in the First World War, becoming a general staff officer, grade 2 in succession to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gathorne-Hardy in March 1915. In March 1916 he was awarded the French Legion of Honour and was Chief Instructor at the Staff School in Cambridge during the last year of the war. before taking up a post as Director of Military Training in India in 1924. He was also author of Lord Wavell, 1883–1941 – A military biography (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947).

Family In 1912 Collins married Violet Agnes Monro.