Norman MacMullen
British general (1877-1944)
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 Colonel Frederic Wood MacMullen and Mary Eleanora Ward.
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, he was with the 15th Bengal Infantry in 1900, and then with the Tibet Expedition in 1903.
He saw action in World War I as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli campaign and then as Brigadier-General on the General Staff with XV Corps in France. He served as a general staff officer, grade 1 in June 1916.
MacMullen served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919. 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. He then became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command in April 1932 before retiring in April 1936.
Personal life
In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Colonel Aylmer MacIver-Campbell.
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