George Macdonogh
| Sir George Macdonogh | |
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| Born | 4 March 1865 Sunderland |
| Died |
10 July 1942 (aged 77) Teddington |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1884–1922 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester |
Lieutenant General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh GBE KCB KCMG (4 March 1865 – 10 July 1942) was a British Army general officer. After early service in the Royal Engineers he became a staff officer prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His main role in the war was as Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office in 1916-18.
He was born on 4 March 1865, son of George Valentine MacDonogh, Deputy Inspector of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 5 July 1884. Ian Beckett comments that he had “considerable intellectual ability” but was “diffident and taciturn”. He was promoted to captain on 22 October 1892.
In 1896 he entered Staff College by examination. The normal order of results was varied in order to conceal how far ahead he and his contemporary James Edmonds were ahead of the other entrants. Both men found their studies easy, and whilst Edmonds wrote a History of the American Civil War in his spare time MacDonogh studied law, qualifying as a barrister at Lincoln’s Inn in 1897.
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