Norman MacMullen


Sir Cyril Norman MacMullen, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO was a British officer in the British Indian Army.

Early life

MacMullen was born in Delhi to Col. Frederic Wood MacMullen and Mary Eleanora Ward.

Military career

MacMullen was commissioned a second-lieutenant on the unattached list of the Indian Army on 4 August 1897, and served on the North West Frontier in 1897. Promoted to lieutenant on 4 November 1899, he was with the 15th Bengal Infantry in 1900, and then with the Tibet Expedition in 1903. He saw action in World War I as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli Campaign and then as Brigadier-General on the General Staff with XV Corps in France.
MacMullen served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919. He went on to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in India in 1924, General Officer Commanding Rawalpindi District and 2nd Indian Division in March 1927 and Adjutant-General, India in May 1930. He then became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command in April 1932 before retiring in April 1936.

Personal life

In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell. They had two daughters, Pamela and Margaret.
He died in a nursing home in Dublin in 1944.