Major General Herman James Shelley Landon, CB, CMG (23 August 1859 – 16 October 1948) was a British Army officer.

[1] He returned to Africa in 1900, in the Boer War, where he took temporary command of his battalion, the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, from March to November.

[14] The 3rd Brigade, part of 1st Infantry Division, mobilised with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the outbreak of the First World War, and was sent to France.

[16] By the end of the battle in November, however, he himself was invalided home, and was relieved as divisional commander by Major General Sir David Henderson.

[18] He accompanied it to France, but was replaced in September due to ill health, shortly before the division saw combat, and sustained heavy losses, at the Battle of Loos.

[21] He also received the French Croix de Guerre,[22] and was appointed a Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold.