Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay

General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC DL , nicknamed Pug, was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchills chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.

Ismay was born in Nainital, India in 1887, and educated in the United Kingdom at the Charterhouse School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the Indian Army as an officer of the 21st Prince Albert Victors Own Cavalry. During the First World War, he served with the Camel Corps in British Somaliland, where he joined in the British fight against the Mad Mullah, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. In 1925, Ismay became an Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence. After being promoted to the rank of colonel, he served as the military secretary for Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy of India, then returned to the Committee of Imperial Defence as Deputy Secretary in 1936.

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