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

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Early life

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

Military career

MacMullen was commissioned a

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on the unattached list of the

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on 4 August 1897, and served on the North West Frontier in 1897. Promoted to

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on 4 November 1899, he was with the 15th Bengal Infantry in 1900, and then with the Tibet Expedition in 1903.Distinguished soldier
The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 1936 He saw action in

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as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli Campaign and then as

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on the General Staff with

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in France. MacMullen served in the

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and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919.Army Commands
He went on to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in India in 1924, General Officer Commanding

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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.New Chief of Staff
''The Straits Times,'' 11 November 1935

Personal life

In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell. They had two daughters, Pamela and Margaret. He died in a nursing home in

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in 1944.

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