Major General

Major General

Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

 Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....

, CB

Order of the Bath

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 (1858 - October 1927) was the colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

, and the author of its official history.
He accompanied Sir Arthur Sloggett to France in 1914, as Deputy Director-General Medical Services

During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he was mentioned in despatches nine times, and received honours from France, Italy and the United States. He was known as "Tiger Mac" on account of his energy and thoroughness.He was later appointed colonel-commandant of the RAMC

His only son Duncan served with the 7th Gurkha Rifles and was killed in action at Festubert

Festubert

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 on the 23rd November 1914.

MacPherson wrote extensively about wartime medical conditions in the Boer War

Boer War

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 and World War I, including the official Medical History of the War (HMSO 1922), and also edited Surgery of the War (HMSO, in two volumes). Prior to the war in 1909, he translated from German The Strategical and Tactical Employment of the Medical Service, as Carried Out in an Army Corps; with a Series of Problems by Maximilian Ritter von Hoen.

He is buried in Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is located near Earl's Court in South West London, England . It is managed by The Royal Parks and is one of the Magnificent Seven...

, London. There is a memorial tablet in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.