Lieutenant-General Robert Graham William Hawkins Stone, CB, DSO, MC (16 January 1890 – 27 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Troops in Egypt.

As a child aged 12, Stone travelled to South Africa, enlisted in the District Mounted Troop, Aliwal North in early 1902, and fought as a private soldier in the Second Boer War.

[2] Subsequently educated at Wellington College, Stone was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in December 1909.

[4] After remaining in the army during the interwar period, he attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1923 to 1924,[1] and became a general staff officer at the War Office in 1930, Commander Royal Engineers for Deccan District in India in 1934 and military attaché in Rome in 1935.

[5] In this capacity he had to maintain control during a coup d'état that resulted in Ahmad Pasha becoming Prime Minister of Egypt in 1944 as well as a subsequent mutinies within the Egyptian Army.