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Major-General Sir William Grant Macpherson (1858 - October 1927) KCMG CB was the colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 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, he was mentioned in dispatches 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 on the 23rd November 1914.1
MacPherson wrote extensively about wartime medical conditions in the Boer War 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, London. There is a memorial tablet in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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