Robert Pollok

Major-General Robert Valentine Pollok, (29 September 1884 – 14 February 1979) was an Irish-born British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District from 1938 to 1940.

Military career After attending Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Pollok was commissioned into the 15th Hussars in 1903. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of United Provinces in India in 1908 and Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General of Australia in 1913. After the war he attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1920 to 1921, was appointed Brigade Major for the 1st Guards Brigade at Aldershot Command and then, in 1926, he was re-appointed commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. and GOC 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in July 1940. and retired in 1941.