Skipton Climo

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Lieutenant-General Sir Skipton Hill Climo (1868–1937) was a British Indian Army officer who led Indian troops in several important campaigns and later commanded the Poona District. He was born in Longford, Ireland, the son of Colonel William Hill Climo. He studied at Shrewsbury School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and began his career in 1888. He joined the Indian Army in 1889 and served with the 24th Punjabis.

Climo earned the Distinguished Service Order for his bravery in the Mohmand campaign of 1897–98. He fought in China during the Boxer Rebellion and took part in the Tibet expedition in 1903–04. He also served on the North-West Frontier, took part in the coronation ceremony for King George V in 1911, and, during World War I, commanded Indian troops in Egypt and Mesopotamia. He fought at Nasiriyah, Kut al Amara and Ctesiphon, where he was wounded in 1915. He received the Companion of the Bath in 1916 and the Order of the Nile, rising to major-general by 1918.

After the war, Climo commanded the 3rd Indian Brigade during the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 and then led the Waziristan Force in 1919–1920. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1920 and went on to command the Poona District from 1920 to 1922. He was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1921 and retired from the army in 1923, settling in Folkestone, England. He married Ethel Bessie Mann in 1925; they had no children. Climo died in Folkestone in 1937 at the age of 68.