Gordon Macready
Appearance
Sir Gordon Macready | |
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Nickname(s) | "Baronet Macready" |
Born | 5 April 1891 Kandy, Ceylon |
Died | 17 October 1956 (aged 65) Paris, France |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1910–1946 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
Service number | 22930 |
Unit | Royal Engineers |
Battles/wars | First World War Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Military Cross Mentioned in dispatches (5) Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States) Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands) Legion of Honour (France) |
Relations | Sir Nevil Macready (father) |
CMG, DSO, MC (5 April 1891 – 17 October 1956) was a British Army officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War
.
Military career
Born in
66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division in 1917. He was promoted to captain on 23 December 1916,[5][6] and brevet major on 3 June 1917.[7] After the war, from April 1919, he became Assistant Adjutant General for the British Military Mission to Berlin.[6][3]
Attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1923 to 1924, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1926, which was followed by attendance at the Imperial Defence College in 1933, Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1936 and Head of the British Military Mission to Egypt in 1938.[8]
He served in the
In retirement he became Regional Commissioner for Lower Saxony in 1946, British Chairman of the Economic Control Office for the British and American Zones of Germany in 1947 and then Economic Advisor to the UK High Commissioner in 1949.[6][8]
He is author of the book In the wake of the great published by Clowes in 1965.[11]
Family
In 1920 he married
Sir Nevil Macready, 3rd Bt.[12]
Arms
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References
- ^ "No. 28455". The London Gazette. 10 January 1911. p. 226.
- ^ Smart 2005, p. 205.
- ^ a b "British Army officer histories". Unit Histories. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ "No. 28674". The London Gazette. 24 December 1912. p. 9785.
- ^ "No. 29888". The London Gazette. 2 January 1917. p. 105.
- ^ a b c Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ "No. 13099". The Edinburgh Gazette. 4 June 1917. p. 1058.
- ^ a b c "Biography of Lieutenant General Gordon Nevil Macready (1891−1956), Great Britain". generals.dk.
- ^ Army Commands Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Citation Accompanying the Legion of Merit Awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon N. Macready
- ^ Amazon.com
- ^ Angelfire
- ^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. 2000.
Bibliography
- Mead, Richard (2007). Churchill's Lions: A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II. Stroud (UK): Spellmount. p. 544 pages. ISBN 978-1-86227-431-0.
- Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 1-84415-049-6.