George Lindsay | |
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| Born | 3 July 1880 |
| Died | 28 November 1956 (aged 76) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg){kind=small} British Army |
| Years of service | 1900–1939 1939–1946 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Service number | 22253 |
| Commands | 41st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 7th (Mechanised Experimental) Infantry Brigade Presidency and Assam District in India 9th (Highland) Infantry Division |
| Battles / wars | Second Boer War First World War Second World War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order |
| Relations | Morgan Lindsay (brother) |
Major-General George Mackintosh Lindsay, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (3 July 1880 – 28 November 1956) was a British Army officer who played a prominent role in the development of mechanised forces during the 1920s and 1930s. Lindsay had spent much of the First World War developing doctrine for the use of machine-guns and training specialist units to operate them. After the war, commanding an armoured-car unit in Iraq, he became intrigued by the potential of mechanised warfare techniques. He was an influential figure in the debate around armoured forces during the 1920s and 1930s, working with J.F.C. Fuller on the Experimental Mechanized Force, and commanded the first experimental armoured division in 1934. Retiring just before the Second World War, Lindsay was called out of retirement to command the 9th (Highland) Infantry Division in the first months of the war, following which he worked as a civil defence commissioner and as a representative of the Red Cross during the liberation of Europe.