Wilfrid Malleson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British Army general
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1866
Place of Birth: United Kingdom
Date of Death: 24-Jan-1946
Profession: military leader
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Wilfrid Malleson
- Major General Sir Wilfrid Malleson (1866–1946) was a major-general in the British Indian Army who led a mission to Turkestan during the Russian Civil War.
- Malleson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1886.
- In 1904 he transferred to the Indian Army and accompanied Sir Louis William Daneon 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. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in August 1916.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.
- In August 1918, he dispatched a British Indian Army force consisting of a machine gun detachment comprising 40 Punjabi troops and a British officer to resist the Bolsheviks near Meru in what was the first direct confrontation between British and Russian troops since the Crimea War.
- 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.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.He retired from the Indian Army on 30 October 1920.
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