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George Milne, 1st Baron Milne
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne (5 November 1866 – 23 March 1948) was a British military commander who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1926 to 1933. He served in the Second Boer War and during World War I he served briefly on the Western Front but spent most of the war commanding the British forces on the Macedonian front. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff he generally promoted the mechanization of British land forces although limited practical progress was made during his term in office.
==Army career==
Born the son of George Milne and Williamina Milne (née Panton) and educated at MacMillan's School in Aberdeen and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Francis Milne )〕 Milne was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 16 September 1885. He was initially posted to a battery at Trimulgherry in India and then joined a battery at Aldershot in 1889 before being posted back to India to a battery at Meerut in 1891.〔Heathcote, Anthony pg 208〕 Promoted to captain on 4 July 1895, he joined the garrison artillery in Malta and then took part in the Suakin Expedition in 1896.〔Heathcote, Anthony pg 209〕 Next he was appointed battery captain at Hilsea and then attended Staff College, Camberley in 1897.〔 There he became a friend of his classmate William Robertson.〔Palmer 1998, p63-4〕 He took part in the Nile Expedition in 1898, seeing action at Omdurman and scoring a direct hit on the Mahdi’s tomb with his battery.〔 He served in the Second Boer War earning promotion to major on 1 November 1899, and having been appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General on 18 February 1900, saw further promotion to lieutenant colonel on 1 November 1900. He was mentioned in despatches on 2 April 1901 and then awarded the Distinguished Service Order in June 1902.〔
He was appointed a Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General in the intelligence division at Headquarters on 26 January 1903 and then, having been promoted to colonel on 1 November 1905, became a general staff officer at Headquarters 46th (North Midland) Division (a Territorial Force formation) in April 1908.〔 He joined the general staff at Headquarters 6th Division in Cork in 1909 and, having been appointed CB in the King's Birthday Honours 1912, became Brigadier-General Royal Artillery for 4th Division at Woolwich on 1 October 1913.
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