Reginald Scoones

Major-General Sir Reginald Laurence Scoones, KBE, CB, DSO (18 December 1900 – October 1991) was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War and its aftermath.

The family, which included his mother, Florence (born in New South Wales, Australia), and older brothers Geoffry Allen Percival Scoones, Thomas Cohn Scoones (who would be commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant from the ranks of the London Regiment and awarded the Military Cross during the First World War while serving as an officer in the Gordon Highlanders, being promoted to Lieutenant, and acting Captain while in command of a company and then while employed as an Adjutant at the Corps Infantry School from 23 September 1918, and as an Aide de Camp from 8 April 1919.

He relinquished the last appointment and was returned to the establishment of his regiment at his substantive rank on 3 September 1919, was placed on the Half-Pay List due to ill health in 1922, and retired on retired pay, on account of ill-health caused by wounds, 6 January 1923, and was granted the rank of Captain) and Valentine Fitzmaurice Scoones (who would die aged 20 on the 18 August 1916, as a Second-Lieutenant, acting Captain, in the 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)),[1][2] lived, at the time, at The Hermitage, on Sutton Lane in Heston.

[5][6] At the outbreak of the war, Scoones was working as a brigade major in Cairo before moving to the staff of the Western Desert Force as GSO2 in 1940.

After a stint first as a GSO1 and then as a Deputy Director of Military Training at the War Office in London, he was sent to India and assigned to command the 254th Indian Tank Brigade on 17 November 1943.