Norman MacMullen

General Sir Cyril Norman MacMullen, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO (13 December 1877 – 12 November 1944) was a British officer in the British Indian Army.

Sir Norman MacMullen
Birth nameCyril Norman MacMullen
Born13 December 1877
Delhi, Bengal, British India[1][2]
Died12 November 1944(1944-11-12) (aged 66)
Dublin, Ireland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branchIndian Army
RankGeneral
Commands heldBareilly Brigade
Rawalpindi District
Eastern Command, India
Battles/wars
Awards
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
  • Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • Companion of the Order of the Star of India
  • Distinguished Service Order

Early life

MacMullen was born in Delhi to Col. Frederic Wood MacMullen and Mary Eleanora Ward.[3]

Military career

MacMullen was commissioned a second-lieutenant on the unattached list of the Indian Army on 4 August 1897, and served on the North West Frontier in 1897. Promoted to lieutenant on 4 November 1899,[4] he was with the 15th Bengal Infantry in 1900, and then with the Tibet Expedition in 1903.[5] He saw action in World War I as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli Campaign[6] and then as Brigadier-General on the General Staff with XV Corps in France.[7]

MacMullen served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919.[8] He went on to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in India in 1924, General Officer Commanding Rawalpindi District and 2nd Indian Division in March 1927 and Adjutant-General, India in May 1930.[8] He then became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command in April 1932 before retiring in April 1936.[9]

Personal life

In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell. They had two daughters, Pamela and Margaret.[10]

He died in a nursing home in Dublin in 1944.[3]

References
  1. 1881 England Census
  2. India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
  3. "Obituary: General Sir Norman MacMullen". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 14 November 1944. p. 6.
  4. "No. 27168". The London Gazette. 23 February 1900. p. 1264.
  5. Distinguished soldier The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 1936
  6. Robbins, p. 107
  7. Robbins, p. 108
  8. Army Commands Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
  9. New Chief of Staff The Straits Times, 11 November 1935
  10. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2846.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Robert Cassels		 Adjutant-General, India
1930–1932		 Succeeded by
Sir Walter Leslie
Preceded by
Sir John Shea		 GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, India
1932–1936		 Succeeded by
Sir Douglas Baird

Sources
  • Robbins, Simon (2010). British Generalship During the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne. Ashgate. ASIN B005QV0EG8.
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