Major-General Robert John Collins, CMG, DSO (22 August 1880 – 6 March 1950) was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, from 1939 to 1941.
Educated at Marlborough College, Collins, after service with the 6th Warwick Militia during the Second Boer War, was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1899.
[1] He fought in the Second Boer War and then served with the Egyptian Army until 1911 and attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1913 to 1914, where J. F. C. Fuller was one of his fellow students.
[3] With the war over, Collins became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley, in 1919 before taking up a post as Director of Military Training in India in 1924.
[1] He was recalled at the start of the Second World War to be GOC of the 61st Infantry Division followed by being made commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, before retiring again in 1941.