Henry Sclater

General Sir Henry Crichton Sclater GCB GBE (1855–1923) was a British Army General during World War I.

Military career
Henry Sclater was commissioned the Royal Artillery in 1875.

He was a General Staff Officer and later Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Headquarters for the Nile expedition between 1884 and 1885. He served in the Egyptian Frontier Field Force from 1885 to 1886 and was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General in Cairo from 1885 to 1890.

He served in the Second Boer War as Assistant Adjutant General, Royal Artillery and Colonel on the General Staff of the Royal Artillery.

He was Director of Artillery at the War Office from 1903 to 1904 when he became Quartermaster General for India. In 1908 he was appointed Commander of Quetta Division in India.

He served in World War I as Adjutant-General to the Forces and a Member of Army Council from 1914 to 1916: in this capacity he was responsible for the expansion of the Army in 1914. He then served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Southern Command from 1916 to 1919. He retired in 1922.