1. Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh was a British Army general officer.
23 Facts About George Macdonogh
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George Macdonogh was born on 4 March 1865, son of George Valentine MacDonogh, Deputy Inspector of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich.
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George Macdonogh was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 5 July 1884.
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George Macdonogh was promoted to captain on 22 October 1892.
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George Macdonogh was promoted to major on 1 April 1901.
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George Macdonogh succeeded Edmonds as head of MO5, drafting measures to control aliens in the event of war.
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In March 1914 George Macdonogh was one of the few officers in the War Office willing to coerce Protestant Ulster during the Curragh incident.
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George Macdonogh performed distinguished service predicting enemy troop movements at the First Battle of Ypres and again predicting an enemy gas attack on the BEF's Second Army in December 1915.
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On Sir William Robertson's promotion from Chief of Staff BEF to CIGS, George Macdonogh was brought back to London.
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George Macdonogh helped to create the propaganda department MI7 which became very active from the summer of 1917.
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George Macdonogh was distrusted by Haig and Haig's intelligence adviser John Charteris, with whom he had an acrimonious correspondence.
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George Macdonogh presented figures to the War Cabinet in October 1917, pouring cold water on Haig's predictions that German manpower would be exhausted by the end of the year.
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An infamous entry in Haig's diary mentions that George Macdonogh "is a Roman Catholic and is influenced by information which reaches him from tainted sources".
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George Macdonogh predicted the date, time and location of the German March 1918 "Michael" Offensive, as did Charteris.
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George Macdonogh was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces on 11 January 1918, a post he held until September 1922.
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George Macdonogh was promoted to temporary lieutenant-general in January 1919.
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George Macdonogh was considered for the position of British liaison officer with the White Russian leader Admiral Kolchak, but not appointed.
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George Macdonogh was promoted to permanent lieutenant-general on 10 September 1922.
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George Macdonogh retired from the Army on 11 September 1925.
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George Macdonogh was appointed CB in 1915, KCMG in 1917, KCB in 1920 and GBE on retirement.
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George Macdonogh was a Commissioner of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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George Macdonogh was active in the London Zoological Society and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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George Macdonogh died on 10 July 1942, at Teddington, Middlesex.