Neill Malcolm

Sir Neill Malcolm
Born	8 October 1869 London, United Kingdom
Died	21 December 1953(1953-12-21) (aged 84) London, United Kingdom
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1889–1924
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	66th Division 39th Division 30th Division Troops in the Straits Settlements
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order

Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm KCB DSO (8 October 1869 – 21 December 1953) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of Staff to Fifth Army in the First World War and later commanded the Troops in the Straits Settlements.

Educated at St Peter's School, York, Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Malcolm was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1889. He served in the Second Boer War and was made Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Army Headquarters 1906 and Secretary of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1908 before becoming a General Staff Officer at the Staff College, Camberley in 1912. He served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and then as Chief of Staff to Hubert Gough's Fifth Army in France. He was then General Officer Commanding 66th Division from 1917, 39th Division from 1918 and 30th Division from later that year. After the war he was Chief of the British Military Mission to Berlin from 1919 and then General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements in 1921 before retiring in 1924.