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Baron Milne is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1933 for Field Marshal George Francis Milne. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ...
The son of George Milne of Aberdeen, Milne served in the Nile Expedition in 1898 and in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
In 1933 he was raised to the peerage as BaronMilne, of Salonika and of Rubislaw in the County of Aberdeen.
Milne's military career began with graduation from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1885; twelve years later he further passed out of the Staff College at Camberley.
Prior to the outbreak of general war in August 1914 Milne found himself in command of 4th Division, with which he served during the early Battles of Le Cateau, 1st Marne and at the Aisne.
From January 1916 Milne was placed in command of all British forces serving in Salonika; but his scope for command was severely limited by the determination of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir William Robertson, to prevent offensive operations in Salonika - in his opinion a pointless theatre for operations.
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