Gordon Macready

Sir Gordon Macready
Born	5 April 1891
Died	17 October 1956
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Military Cross

Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Nevil Macready, 2nd Baronet KBE CB CMG DSO MC (5 April 1891 – 17 October 1956) was a British Army officer who served as Assistant chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II.

Military career

Born the son of General Sir Nevil Macready, Macready joined the Royal Engineers^[1] and served on the Western Front during World War I becoming Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General for 66th Division in 1917.^[2] After the War he became Assistant Adjutant General for the British Military Mission to Berlin.^[2] He was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1926, Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1936 and Head of the British Military Mission to Egypt in 1938.^[3] He served in World War II as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff from October 1940^[4] and as Head of the British Army mission in Washington D. C. from 1942 until his retirement in 1946.^[5]

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.^[2]

He is author of the book "In the wake of the great" published by Clowes in 1965.^[6]

Villa Mauser in Bad Honnef, Residence of Gordon Macready from 1949 until his death

Family

In 1920 he married Elisabeth Pauline Sabine Marie de Noailles; they had one son, Sir Nevil Macready 3rd bt.^[7]

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