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
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchIndian Army
Years of service1897–1936
RankGeneral
Commands heldBareilly Brigade
Rawalpindi District
Eastern Command, India
Battles/wars
Awards

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

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. 1 2 "Obituary: General Sir Norman MacMullen". The Times. 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. 1 2 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.

Sources

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