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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Years of service
  
1901 - 1942

Rank
  
General

Name
  
Robert Haining

Died
  
1959


Robert Haining

Commands held
  
British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan Western Command

Battles/wars
  
First World War Second World War

Awards
  
Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order

Similar People
  
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Husayni, Eliyahu Golomb, Dudley Pound, Bernard Montgomery - 1st Visco, Harold MacMichael

Battles and wars
  
World War I, World War II

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General Sir Robert Hadden Haining KCB DSO (1882–1959) was a British Army general who served during the Second World War.

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Military career

Robert Haining was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1901. He served during the First World War, and after he became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn.

After attending the Staff College, Camberley, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General for 2nd Division based at Aldershot in 1928 and then became a General Staff Officer in 4th Division at Colchester in 1930. He served in Military Operations in the War Office from 1931 to 1933 becoming Deputy Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in 1933. He became Commandant of the Imperial Defence College in 1935 and Director of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office in 1936. He was appointed General Officer Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1938.

At the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command and moved on to be Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1940. He was appointed Intendant General for Middle East Forces in 1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the role of an Intendant General to be that of "serving the Commander-in-Chief with the largest possible measure of supplies". He retired from the British Army in 1942.

He was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1950.

Retirement

In retirement he became Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.

References

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