Robert Haining

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

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

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 Transjordan in 1938.

At the outbreak of World War II 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.