Gordon Macready

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

Military career Villa Mauser in Bad Honnef, Residence of Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Macready from 1949 until his death in 1956. Born in Kandy, British Ceylon, on 5 April 1891, the son of Sir Nevil Macready, Gordon Macready was sent to England and was educated at Cheltenham College and later entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Engineers on 23 December 1910.

Promoted to lieutenant on 21 December 1912, Macready served on the Western Front during the First World War becoming an aide-de-camp in November 1914 and later an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general for the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division in 1917. He was promoted to captain on 23 December 1916, and brevet major on 3 June 1917. After the war, from April 1919, he became Assistant Adjutant General for the British Military Mission to Berlin. He was deputy director of staff duties at the War Office in 1936 and head of the British military mission to Egypt in 1938.

He served in the Second World War as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff from October 1940 and as Head of the British Army mission in Washington D. C. from 1942 until his retirement in 1946.

Family In 1920 he married Elisabeth Pauline Sabine Marie de Noailles; they had one son, Sir Nevil Macready, 3rd Bt.

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