Henry MacCall
{{short description|British Army officer}}
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|name=Henry MacCall
|birth_date=15 August 1845
|birth_place= Paris, France
|death_date={{death date and age|1921|07|22|1845|08|15|df=yes}}
|death_place=Southsea, Hampshire, England
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
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|rank= Major-General
|branch= British Army
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|commands=1st Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps
41st Regimental District
59th (2nd North Midland) Division
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|battles=Isazai Expedition
Chitral Expedition
Siege of Malakand
First World War
|awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath
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Major-General Henry Blackwood MacCall {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB}} (15 August 1845 – 22 July 1921) was a senior British Army officer.
Military career
MacCall was commissioned into the 60th Regiment of Foot on 16 February 1864.{{London Gazette|issue=22820|page=724|date=16 February 1864}} He served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps with the Isazai Expedition in 1892, the Chitral Expedition in 1895 and the Siege of Malakand in 1897.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1039|title=Army List|page=1030|volume=3|date=31 December 1919|publisher=Andrews UK Limited |isbn=9781781502976}} He went on to be commander of the 41st Regimental District in Cardiff in 1897, then transferred to British India as Deputy Adjutant General in India in February 1899. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War saw several senior officers posted to South Africa in late 1899, MacCall was appointed temporary in command of the Peshawar district as its commander received another posting on 4 January 1900.{{London Gazette |issue= 27498 |page=7942 |date= 25 November 1902 }} He transferred to the Bangalore command in early August 1900,Hart′s Army list, 1902 and received a substantive appointment as commander of a 2nd Class District in India in 1901.{{cite web|url=https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=455&lot_uid=294454|title=Major-General H. B. MacCall, King's Royal Rifle Corps|publisher=DNW|accessdate=27 June 2020}}
He retired in August 1902 but was recalled to serve as General Officer Commanding 59th (2nd North Midland) Division on Home Service from January 1915 to November 1915.Becke, Maj A.F. History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, {{ISBN|1-847347-39-8}}, pp. 17-23
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Category:British Army generals of World War I
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:King's Royal Rifle Corps officers
Category:Military personnel from Paris
Category:British Army major generals
Category:British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition
Category:British military personnel of the Malakand Frontier War
Category:19th-century British Army personnel
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