Brigadier General Henry Stanhope Sloman, CMG, DSO (1861–1945) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War.

[3] He received his first commission as a lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment on 10 May 1882, served during the Nile Expedition in 1885, and was promoted to captain on 20 November 1888.

He was present at the battles of Atbara (April 1898) and Omdurman (September 1898) and received the Order of the Medjidie, fourth class, and was twice mentioned in despatches.

[3][4] With the outbreak of the Second Boer War in South Africa in late 1899, he was appointed a Special Service Officer and served as such from 1899 to 1900, and later on the Staff following his promotion to major on 11 December 1901.

[5] The war ended in June 1902, and he left Cape Town in the SS Plassy in August, returning to Southampton the following month.