Years of service 1953–1991 | Name John MacMillan Rank Lieutenant-general | |
Commands held 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders39th Infantry BrigadeEastern DistrictGeneral Officer Commanding Scotland Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire | ||
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Lieutenant General Sir John Richard Alexander MacMillan KCB, CBE (born 8 February 1932) was General Officer Commanding Scotland.
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Military career
Born the son of General Sir Gordon MacMillan and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, MacMillan was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1953.
He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion the Gordon Highlanders in 1971 and Commander of 39th Infantry Brigade, a unit permanently stationed in Northern Ireland, in 1977. He was given the colonelcy of the Gordon Highlanders from 1978 to 1986.
He became General Officer Commanding Eastern District in 1982, Assistant Chief of the General Staff in 1984 and General Officer Commanding Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1988. He retired in 1991.
In 1995 he became Chairman of the Erskine Hospital in Renfrewshire.
Family
He married Belinda Webb: they went on to have one son and two daughters.