High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels GCB GCSI DSO (1876-1959) was a British Army General during World War II. Cassels was commissioned into Indian Staff Corps in 1896. He went on to serve in World War I. In November 1917 he was appointed Commander of 11th Cavalry Brigade and took his brigade on a great turning movement up the left bank of the River Tigris, outflanking the Turks and helping to bring the Mesopotamian Campaign to an end. After the War he became a Major-General in the Cavalry in India until 1923 when he was appointed Commander of Peshawar District. He became Attorney-General in India in 1928 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command in India in 1930. He was next made Commander-in-Chief, India and a Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India in 1935. He continued in that post into World War II and retired in 1941.