Andrew Skeen

General Sir Andrew Skeen, KCB, KCIE, CMG (20 January 1873 – 18 February 1935) served in the British Indian Army, rising to the position of Chief of the General Staff. He was one of Britain's most experienced frontier warfare officers.

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North-West Frontier, India, 1897-1898
- Operations of the Malakand Field Force
China, 1900
East Africa, 1902-1904
- Operations in Somaliland
World War I, 1914-1918
- Staff officer to General William Birdwood, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Gallipoli, 1915
  - Mentioned in dispatches with regard to reinforcing Anzac Cove, in full view and reach of the enemy, prior to the Battle of Sari Bair. "The preparation of the ambush was treated as a simple matter by the services therein engaged, and yet I much doubt whether any more pregnant enterprise than this of landing so large a force under the very eyes of the enemy, and of keeping them concealed there three days, is recorded in the annals of war." — General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
  - Awarded CMG and French Croix de Guerre
- Director of Military Operations, India AHQ, 1916
- Deputy Chief of General Staff, Indian Army, 1917
Major General, Indian Army 1918
Third Anglo-Afghan War, 1919
- Commander, 3 (Abbottabad) Indian Infantry Bde
- Commander, Kohat Kurram Force
Waziristan, North-West Frontier, India 1919-1920
- Commander, Tochi and Derajat Columns, India 1919-1920
Commander, Kohat District, Northern Command, India 1921-1922
Commander, Peshawar District, India 1922-1923
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, India 1923-1924
Chief of General Staff, Indian Army 1924-1928
Retired 1929

Skeen, Gen Sir A., Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal Fighting on the Northwest Frontier of India, 4^th ed (Gale & Polden, 1939). The 4^th edition has an additional chapter (by Maj D.B. Mackenzie) on lessons learned from Waziristan 1937.