George Macdonogh

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Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh , GBE , KCB , KCMG (born March 4, 1865 in Sunderland , County Durham ; † July 10, 1942 in Teddington , London ) was a British officer in the British Army who served as major general during the First World War between 1916 and in 1918 Director General for Mobilization and Military Intelligence and as Lieutenant General from 1918 to 1922 Adjutant-General to the Forces .

Life

George Mark Watson Macdonogh completed an officer training at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich and was accepted into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1884 . After numerous assignments as an officer, he was promoted to colonel in 1912 and became an officer in the Imperial General Staff. After the beginning of the First World War he was transferred to France as Chief Intelligence Officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) , Field Marshal John French . He remained in France even after General William Robertson took office as Chief of Staff of the BEF in January 1915. Due to his Roman Catholic faith , however, despite his extensive knowledge within the military leadership, he had numerous opponents such as the commanding general of the I. Corps ( I Corps ) , General Douglas Haig , who succeeded French as commander in chief of the British Expeditionary Forces in December 1915. After Haig was appointed in December as the successor Frenchs commander of the BEF, this tended to consider Macdonoghs Council with some disdain, preferring to focus on the more optimistic (and less accurate) statements of its new Chief Intelligence Officer John Charteris to support.

This led Macdonogh to return to Britain in late 1915 after General William Robertson, who had come to appreciate his reliable services in France, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in December 1915 . Macdonogh was promoted to major general and in January 1916 took over the newly created office of Director-General of Mobilization and Military Intelligence (Director-General of Mobilization and Military Intelligence) and held this until September 1918, when Major General William Thwaites succeeded him. On January 1, 1917, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and has since had the suffix "Sir". Shortly before the end of the First World War, he succeeded General Nevil Macready in September 1918 as the new Adjutant-General to the Forces and worked as such until he was replaced by General Philip Chetwode in September 1922. In 1919 he was also promoted to lieutenant general and on June 5, 1920 he was also knighted commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). For his many years of service, he was also beaten on July 17, 1925 to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , gulabin.com (last updated on July 2, 2019), p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b c Knights and Dames , leighrayment.com (last updated on February 11, 2018).
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: Since 1860 , gulabin.com (last updated on July 2, 2019), p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Macdonogh, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macdonogh, Sir George Mark Watson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunderland , County Durham
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1942
Place of death Teddington , London