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Name: MILNE, George Francis GCB, GCMG, DSO (General), Sir
Nee: 1st Baron Milne, son of George Milne of Westwood, Aberdeen
Birth Date: 5 Nov 1866 Aberdeen
Death Date: 23 March 1948 London
First Date: 1920
Profession: (Regular soldier - does not appear to have served in EA). Field marshal. CIGS 1926
Area: Kivoga Kericho
Married: In London 3 June 1905 Claire Marjoribanks Maitland MBE b. 1866 (dau. of Sir John Nisbet Maitland Bt.)
Children: Joan Clare Florence (Rutland) (12 Mar 1907-19 Jan 1997 Winchester); George Douglass (10 Feb 1909 Staffordshire-1 Feb 2005 Richmond, Surrey)
Book Reference: Hut, Debrett, SS
School: RMC, Woolwich
General Information:
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut.-Gen. Sir G.F. Milne, KCMG, General Headquarters, Constantinople - Farm 488 [does not seem to have taken up the land, which was 5000 acres, but James Kenneth Matheson went out to Kenya in 1920 to survey the land.]