Major-General Robert Valentine Pollok CB CBE DSO (1884–1979) was an Irish-born British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.
After attending Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Pollok was commissioned into the 15th Hussars in 1903.[2] 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 and Commander-in-Chief of Australia in 1913.[2]
He served in World War I with the Australian Forces in Gallipoli and then transferred to the Irish Guards in 1916.[2] He became Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Irish Guards in 1917.[2]
After the War he attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1920–1921, was appointed Brigade Major for the 1st Guards Brigade at Aldershot Command and then, in 1926, he was re-appointed 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 General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District in 1938[3] and GOC 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in July 1940.[2] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in July 1940[4] and retired in 1941.[2]
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