Name Gordon Macready Allegiance United Kingdom Rank Lieutenant-general | Service/branch British Army Died October 17, 1956 | |
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Battles/wars World War I
World War II Awards Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath | ||
Battles and wars World War I, World War II | ||
Lieutenant General Sir Gordon Nevil Macready, 2nd Baronet (5 April 1891 – 17 October 1956) was a British Army officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War.
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Military career
Born the son of Sir Nevil Macready, Macready was educated at Cheltenham College and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1910 and served on the Western Front during the First World War becoming Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General for 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division in 1917. After the war he became Assistant Adjutant General for the British Military Mission to Berlin.
Attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1923 to 1924, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1926, which was followed by attendance at the Imperial Defence College in 1933, Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1936 and Head of the British Military Mission to Egypt in 1938. He served in the Second World War as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff from October 1940 and as Head of the British Army mission in Washington D. C. from 1942 until his retirement in 1946.
In retirement he became Regional Commissioner for Lower Saxony in 1946, British Chairman of the Economic Control Office for the British and American Zones of Germany in 1947 and then Economic Advisor to the UK High Commissioner in 1949.
He is author of the book In the wake of the great published by Clowes in 1965.
Family
In 1920 he married Elisabeth Pauline Sabine Marie de Noailles; they had one son, Sir Nevil Macready, 3rd Bt.