20th Century Portraits Catalogue
George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866-1948), Field Marshal
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Born in Aberdeen in 1866; educated at the University of Aberdeen before deciding on a military career and entering the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted to the Royal Artillery in 1885 and spent much of his early career in India; passed into the Staff College, Camberley and saw his first action in 1898; during the First World War he was promoted major-general, general staff, Second Army and was then ordered to Salonika with the temporary rank of lieutenant-general; after the sudden death of General Lord Rawlinson, commander-in-chief in India, Milne was nominated as his successor and served for seven years as CIGS; left the War Office at the age of sixty-seven, and was created Baron Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw, county of Aberdeen in 1933; during the Second World War he became an air-raid warden in Westminster, a colonel-commandment of the Pioneer Corps, and wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Chronicle; he died in London in March 1948.