Sir Norman MacMullen | |
Birth Name: | Cyril Norman MacMullen |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1877 |
Birth Place: | Delhi, Bengal, British India[1] [2] |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | Indian Army |
Serviceyears: | 1897–1936 |
Rank: | General |
Commands: | Bareilly Brigade Rawalpindi District Eastern Command, India |
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General Sir Cyril Norman MacMullen, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO (13 December 1877 – 12 November 1944) was a British officer in the British Indian Army.
MacMullen was born in Delhi to Col. Frederic Wood MacMullen and Mary Eleanora Ward.[3]
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.[4] He saw action in World War I as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli Campaign[5] and then as Brigadier-General on the General Staff with XV Corps in France.[6]
MacMullen served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919.[7] 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.[7] He then became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command in April 1932 before retiring in April 1936.[8]
In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell. They had two daughters, Pamela and Margaret.[9]
He died in a nursing home in Dublin in 1944.[3]
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