Gordon Holmes MacMillan

General Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap KCB, KCVO, CBE, DSO, MC amp two Bars was a professional soldier who rose to become a general in the British Army. As a young officer during World War I, he displayed outstanding bravery and was awarded a Military Cross and two Bars. At the age ofand while still a second lieutenant, he was appointed acting adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Between the World Wars, MacMillan remained in the army, occupying posts of increasing seniority. He married Marian Blakiston Houston in 1929, and they had one daughter and four sons.

MacMillan was born near Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, India, onJanuary 1897. His father, Dugald MacMillan, was a coffee plantation owner. However, when he wasyears old, his parents, both of Scottish origin, decided to return to Britain to bring up their only son. At the age of ten, he joined St Edmunds School, Canterbury, from where he won a Prize Cadetship to attend the Royal Military College Sandhurst, in 1915.

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