Robert Pollok (British Army officer)

Robert Pollok
Robert Pollok
Nickname(s)	"Val"

Northern Ireland District

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Military career

After attending

Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Australia in 1913.^[2]

He served in

Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Irish Guards in 1917.^[2]

After the War he attended the

Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Irish Guards.^[2] He was made Commander of the 1st Guards Brigade at Aldershot Command in 1931 and Commandant of the Senior Officer School at Sheerness in 1935.^[2]

He was appointed

Companion of the Order of the Bath in July 1940^[4] and retired in 1941.^[2]

References

^ Smart 2005, p. 253.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Pollok, Robert". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ "Pollok, Robert Valentine". Generals.dk. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ "No. 34893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 July 1940. p. 4244.

Bibliography

Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War.
ISBN 1844150496
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External links

Generals of World War II

Military offices
Preceded by Wilfrid Lindsell	Commandant of the Senior Officers' School, Sheerness 1933–1935	Succeeded by Roderic Petre
Preceded by James Cooke-Collis	GOC British Army in Northern Ireland 1938–1940	Succeeded by Hubert Huddleston
Preceded by Arthur Percival	GOC 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 1940–1941	Succeeded by Charles Allfrey

[FOOTNOTESmart2005253-1] Smart 2005, p. 253.

[lh-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Pollok, Robert". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2020.

[3] "Pollok, Robert Valentine". Generals.dk. Retrieved 4 June 2020.

[4] "No. 34893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 July 1940. p. 4244.

Distinguished Service Order

Mentioned in dispatches

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