George Milne, 1st Baron Milne
George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne GCB, GCMG, DSO (* November 5, 1866 Aberdeen, Scotland, † March 23, 1948 in London ) was a British field marshal and 1926-1933 Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Life
Milne attended high school in Aberdeen and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. In 1885 he joined the Royal Artillery and took part in the defeat of the Mahdi uprising, where he fought in the Battle of Omdurman. During the Second Boer War Milne was used as adjutant-general Lord Kitchener, on November 1, 1900 he became a lieutenant colonel. For his service in the Boer War Milne was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
In 1905 he married Claire Marjoribanks, daughter of Sir John Nisbet Maitland, 5th Baronet. He has been since November 1, 1905 went up to Colonel General Staff officer with the 46th Division.
After the outbreak of the First World War Milne was in July 1914 for artillery commander of the 4th Division, which was commanded by General Thomas D' Oyly Snow. With it, he took part in the Battle of Le Cateau, the First Battle of the Marne and the First Aisneschlacht. In October 1914, his promotion was to the Brigadier. In January 1915 he was Chief of Staff of the III. Corps of the 2nd Army in the Ypres, on 23 February, he was appointed major general. In July 1915 he became commander of the 27th Division, which went off to Salonika in November. Milne took over the leadership of the XVI. Corps, which was the French General Maurice Sarrail assumed. In January 1916 he was commander of the British Salonika Army, and on May 9, 1916, he rose to supreme commander of the British troops in Macedonia. William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, however, was not going to let it come here to hostilities. It was only in April 1917 Milne was able to launch an offensive on the Doiran Lake, but was unsuccessful and brought heavy losses. It was only in September 1918 Bulgaria was forced to surrender.
The end of 1918 he took over the leadership freshly landed British Expeditionary Force on the Black Sea and the Caucasus region. He tried to enforce British interests through interventions in Batumi and Baku after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. In March 1920, Milne took over the British occupation forces in Istanbul. Here he was also appointed to a full General. In 1922, he became General Officer Commanding of the Eastern Command. From 1926 to 1933 Milne was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was promoted on January 30, 1928 Field Marshal. Between 1933 and 1938 he held the office of constable of the Tower.
In June 1933, Milne was elevated to the title of Baron Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw in the County of Aberdeen in the hereditary nobility. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard. As Milne in 1948 died at the age of 81 years, his title passed to his son George Douglass.