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Henry MacCall

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Henry MacCall
Born15 August 1845
Paris, France
Died22 July 1921(1921-07-22) (aged 75)
Southsea, Hampshire, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands1st Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps
41st Regimental District
59th (2nd North Midland) Division
Battles / warsIsazai Expedition
Chitral Expedition
Siege of Malakand
First World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Henry Blackwood MacCall CB (15 August 1845 – 22 July 1921) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

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MacCall was commissioned into the 60th Regiment of Foot on 16 February 1864.[1] He served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps with the Isazai Expedition in 1892, the Chitral Expedition in 1895 and the Siege of Malakand in 1897.[2] He went on to be commander of the 41st Regimental District in Cardiff in 1897, then transferred to British India as Deputy Adjutant General in India in February 1899. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War saw several senior officers posted to South Africa in late 1899, MacCall was appointed temporary in command of the Peshawar district as its commander received another posting on 4 January 1900.[3] He transferred to the Bangalore command in early August 1900,[4] and received a substantive appointment as commander of a 2nd Class District in India in 1901.[5]

He retired in August 1902 but was recalled to serve as General Officer Commanding 59th (2nd North Midland) Division on Home Service from January 1915 to November 1915.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 22820". The London Gazette. 16 February 1864. p. 724.
  2. ^ Army List. Vol. 3. 31 December 1919. p. 1030. ISBN 9781781502976.
  3. ^ "No. 27498". The London Gazette. 25 November 1902. p. 7942.
  4. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1902
  5. ^ "Major-General H. B. MacCall, King's Royal Rifle Corps". DNW. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  6. ^ Becke, Maj A.F. History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8, pp. 17-23
Military offices
New title GOC 59th (2nd North Midland) Division
January 1915 – November 1915
Succeeded by