General Sir Geoffry Allen Percival Scoones, KCB, KBE, CSI, DSO, MC (also spelt Geoffrey; 25 January 1893 – 19 September 1975) was a senior officer in the Indian Army during the Second World War.

In 1901 Scoones, with his father, his mother, and his brothers Thomas, Valentine (who would die aged 20 on 18 August 1916, as a Second-Lieutenant, acting Captain, in the 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)),[3][4] and Reginald, lived in the parish of Heston, in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, at The Hermitage, Sutton Lane.

[5] His father was posted to the Bermuda Garrison with the 3rd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, arriving aboard the troopship Dominion at the start of December 1903, along with Major CJ Stanton, Lieutenant F Moore, and Second-Lieutenant George Ernest Hawes of the same battalion (the remainder of the battalion of sixteen officers, one warrant officer, and 937 non-commissioned officers and other ranks under Lieutenant-Colonel Gaisford, arrived separately on the troopship HMT Dunera from Egypt).

[11][13] He was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the Distinguished Service Order[14] and the Military Cross.

[18] After attending the Imperial Defence College, from 14 February 1935 to 23 April 1938 he was made commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion the 8th Gurkha Rifles.

[20] Scoones served in the Second World War initially as a general staff officer on the Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence.

[24] In December 1944 he and his fellow corps commanders Stopford and Christison were knighted and invested as Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the viceroy Lord Wavell at a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjab regiments.