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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Major-General '''Sir Herbert Mullaly''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CB|CSI}} (4 June 1860<ref name="burkegreatwar">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition=76th |year= 1914 |page= 2446 |ref=Burke }}</ref> – 9 June 1932) was an officer in the British Army.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Major-General Sir H. Mullaly |work=[[The Times]] |date=13 June 1932 |page= 14 }}</ref><br />
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Mullaly was born in British India, the son of John Mullaly of the East India Company and his wife, Hannah. He was baptised in Bombay at three months old.<ref>''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947''</ref> Major-General Mullaly saw service in South Africa, was Director of Military Operations in India from 1906 to 1910, and was in charge of East Coast defences during the war.<ref name="times"/><br />
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He served in British India, South Africa and during World War I in England, where he commanded the Thames and Medway Defences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6332.msg51533#msg51533|title=Precautions Against Aerial Attack|website=www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk}}</ref><br />
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He authored ''Russia's March towards India. By An Indian Officer'' (London; Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1894).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.booksofasia.com/stock_detail.php?stockid=118205|title=Russia's March towards India. [Mullaly, Sir Herbert]|website=www.booksofasia.com}}</ref><br />
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He was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] (CB) in 1905, a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in 1908, and Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1917. He died in [[La Tour-de-Peilz]], Switzerland in 1932.<ref name="times"/><br />
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His portraits can be found in the National Portrait Gallery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp80022/sir-herbert-mullaly|title=Sir Herbert Mullaly - Person - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref><br />
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==Papers==<br />
Major-General Sir Herbert Mullaly left his decorations, papers, and textbooks in his will to his son, Major Brian Reginald Mullaly, of the Indian Army, with this comment:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22005497|title=The Brisbane Courier|last=Mullaly|first=Sir Herbert|date=1932-11-17}}</ref><blockquote>"Among them are many original papers, such as original copies of the schemes for the redistribution and reorganisation of the army in India, which were called 'Lord Kitchener Schemes,' but which were evolved entirely out of my own brain, written by my own hand, and were accepted practically in their entirety."</blockquote> The papers also include various other documents of a confidential nature. General Mullaly requested that none of his diaries or papers, or extracts therefrom, be published before 1950.<br />
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