Allan C. McBride

Allan Clay McBride (June 30, 1885 – May 9, 1944) was an American brigadier general and chief of staff in the Philippines at the time of the Japanese invasion. He died of starvation in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Formosa.

In 1908, McBride earned an A.B. degree from St. John's Military College in Annapolis, Maryland. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant of field artillery in September 1908. During World War I, McBride served as a battalion commander in France and received a temporary promotion to lieutenant colonel.

After the war, McBride graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1923 and the Army War College in 1926. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in January 1933 and colonel in September 1937.

After the war, his remains were exhumed from Taiwan in 1947, transferred to Hawaii and then reburied at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland on May 25, 1948.