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[[File:Malleson-i-413x600.jpg|thumb|Wilfrid Malleson]]<br />
Major-General '''Sir Wilfrid Malleson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE|CB}} (8 September 1866 – 24 January 1946) was a major-general in the [[British Indian Army]] who led a mission to [[Turkestan]] during the [[Russian Civil War]].<br />
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== Life ==<br />
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Malleson born in [[Baldersby]], Yorkshire. was commissioned into the [[Royal Artillery]] in 1886. In 1904 he transferred to the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] and accompanied Sir [[Louis Dane]] on his mission to [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]], 1904–1905. He was posted to [[British East Africa]], where he was appointed Inspector General of Communications. He participated in the [[Battle of Salaita]] and the [[Battle of Latema Nek]].<br />
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He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] in August 1916.<ref>London Gazette 18 August 1916.</ref><br />
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He then led the British Military Mission to Turkestan between 16 July 1918 – 5 April 1919, aiming to block possible German-Turkish thrusts towards India and Afghanistan.<ref name=Cain>{{Harvnb|Cain|1996|p=93}}.</ref> In August 1918, he dispatched a [[British Indian Army]] force consisting of a [[machine gun]] detachment comprising 40 [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] troops and a British officer to resist the [[Bolsheviks]] near [[Mary, Turkmenistan|Meru]] in what was the first direct confrontation between British and Russian troops since the [[Crimea War]].<ref>''On Secret Service East of Constantinople'' by [[Peter Hopkirk]], John Murray, 1994.</ref> He led the [[Malleson Mission]] an effort to curtail German and Turkish influence in the area, and to assist the [[Transcaspian Government]] against the Bolsheviks in the [[Russian Civil War]]. Malleson was forced to withdraw in April 1919 however.<ref name=Cain/><br />
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Later he participated in the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] in 1919. He was involved in military intelligence, running a spy network from [[Meshed]] in north-eastern Iran against the Russians during this period. For his services, Malleson was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (KCIE) on 1 January 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32001|supp=y|date=30 July 1920|page=8050}}</ref><br />
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He retired from the Indian Army on 30 October 1920.<ref>Indian Army List supplement January 1924.</ref><br />
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==Personal aspects ==<br />
In 1894, he married Ida Kathleen King, daughter of Frederick St Aubyn King.<ref>''India, Select Marriages, 1792–1948''.</ref> Their son [[Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson]] was awarded the Victoria Cross.<br />
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He died in [[Newton Abbot]] in 1946.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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* [[Giles Milton|Milton, Giles]] ''Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot'', Sceptre, 2013. {{ISBN|978 1 444 73702 8}}.<br />
* ''Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan'', by Rafis Abazov, Scarecrow Press, 2005.<br />
* {{cite book |last=Cain |first=Frank |year=1996 |title=Charles Howard (Dick) (1895–1975), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 14|publisher=Melbourne University Press |location=Melbourne |page=93 }}<br />
* ''On Secret Service East of Constantinople'', by [[Peter Hopkirk]], John Murray 1994, p.&nbsp;340.<br />
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