Robert Stone

Lieutenant-General Robert Graham William Hawkins Stone, (16 January 189027 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Troops in Egypt.

Military career As a child aged 12, Stone travelled to South Africa, enlisted in the District Mounted Troop, Aliwal North in early 1902, and fought as a private soldier in the Second Boer War.

Subsequently educated at Wellington College, Stone was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in December 1909. He served in the First World War in France, latterly as brigade major for 32nd Infantry Brigade. In this capacity he had to maintain control during a coup d'état that resulted in Ahmad Pasha becoming Prime Minister of Egypt in 1944 as well as a subsequent mutinies within the Egyptian Army.

He retired in 1947.