James Howden MacBrien

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Military career

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Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie with H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught and other senior officers. Brigadier General J. H. MacBrien is stood in the second row, fifth from the left, directly behind Currie.

Educated in Port Perry (Port Perry High School),^[1] MacBrien initially joined the Canadian Militia with the 34th Ontario Regiment but then transferred to the North-West Mounted Police and, during the Second Boer War, to the South African Constabulary.^[1]^[2] Returning to Canada he was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Dragoons.^[1]

He also served in World War I as a general staff officer and then, from 1916, as commanding officer of 12th Infantry Brigade.^[2] He was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in January 1917.^[3]

After the war he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.^[2]

He also served as the eighth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1931 to March 5, 1938.^[1] MacBrien died in Toronto.

Family

In 1907 he married Nellie Louise Ross and in 1928 he married Emily Emely Hartridge.^[1]

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