General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea, GCB, KCMG, DSO (17 January 1869 – 1 May 1966) was a British officer in the Indian Army.

[1] During the First World War, he held senior commands on the Western Front and the Middle Eastern theatre.

[3] He was promoted to lieutenant on 11 February 1890,[4] and the following year transferred to the Indian Army where he was posted to the 15th Bengal Lancers.

[9] In July 1915 he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general[10] and became commander of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division's 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade, a Territorial Force formation, which had recently arrived on the Western Front.

[13] On 9 December 1917 he received the keys of the city of Jerusalem, an act symbolising its surrender by the mayor Hussein al-Husayni, after many other generals refused to take this responsibility.