General Sir Cyril Norman MacMullen, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO (13 December 1877 – 12 November 1944) was a British officer in the British Indian Army.
Early life MacMullen was born in Delhi to Colonel Frederic Wood MacMullen and Mary Eleanora Ward.
Military career MacMullen was commissioned a second-lieutenant on the unattached list of the Indian Army on 4 August 1897, and served on the North West Frontier in 1897. Promoted to lieutenant on 4 November 1899, he was with the 15th Bengal Infantry in 1900, and then with the Tibet Expedition in 1903.Distinguished soldier The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 1936
He saw action in World War I as a General Staff Officer Grade 1 with the 2nd Mounted Division during the Gallipoli campaignRobbins, p. 107 and then as Brigadier-General on the General Staff with XV Corps in France.Robbins, p. 108 He served as a general staff officer, grade 1 in June 1916.
MacMullen served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and then became Commander of the Bareilly Brigade in November 1919.Army Commands He went on to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in India in 1924, General Officer Commanding Rawalpindi District and 2nd Indian Division in March 1927 and Adjutant-General, India in May 1930. He then became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command in April 1932 before retiring in April 1936.New Chief of Staff The Straits Times, 11 November 1935
Personal life In 1905, he married Maud MacIver-Campbell, daughter of Colonel Aylmer MacIver-Campbell. They had two daughters, Pamela and Margaret.
He died in a nursing home in Dublin in 1944.
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