Robert Scallon

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Irvin Scallon (3 April 1857 – 1 May 1939) was a British officer in the Indian Army.

Military career Scallon was commissioned into the British Army in 1876 and joined the 72nd Highlanders in 1877. He transferred to the Bombay Staff Corps in 1877 and took part in the Battle of Kandahar in 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. and went on to command troops in the Zhob District during disturbances in 1902, for which he received the brevet rank of colonel on 5 June 1902. The following year he was in command of troops during operations in the Aden Hinterland in 1903.

Scallon became 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, before becoming General Officer Commanding 8th (Lucknow) Division in 1913.