page_title: Archibald Alexander Gordon
section_title: After the war
hierarchical_section_title: Archibald Alexander Gordon / After the war
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Major Gordon
context_page_description: Major Archibald Alexander Gordon CBE, MVO, Order of Leopold, Legion of Honour was a Scottish soldier who served as attaché to the Military Household of King Albert I of Belgium during World War I, with the title of Belgian King's Messenger.
  He is the younger brother of William Eagleson Gordon, who was awarded the Victoria Cross.
context_section_description: Major Gordon was tasked by King Albert to retrieve the 'Belgian treasure' back from England. These trips where very hard, because of the mudd and destroyed landscapes of France and Belgian. However Major Gordon succeeded in his task and was presented the Commander in the Order of the Crown afterwards. He later received a secret task that had to be executed in the Netherlands, near Breda. Here he encountered a dangerous situation at a Dutch checkpoint, when he had to fear for his life. In 1920 he received a telegram that King George V had personally selected him to be part of his suite for the Belgian visit to London. On this occasion Major Gordon was decorated Commander in the Order of Leopold II and received a signed picture of King Albert's latest portrait. Two years later Major Gordon was asked by the Grand Marschal of the Belgian Court, on the behalf of King Albert, if he could be in Brussels for the occasion to be held on 7 May.
  Because of the poor health of his wife after the war, Major Gordon resigned his commission as private secretary to Arthur Wellesley – 4th Duke of Wellington and moved to Stow-on-the-Wold because he thought that the countryside will do her well. Because of the high altitude of Stow-on-the-Wold, Lizzie's condition became worse and the couple had to move again and returned to Major Gordon's birthplace Bridge of Allan. On 13 July 1929 Lizzie died peacefully at their home in Bridge of Allan.
  Major Gordon's youngest son Edmund, who sustained some serious lung damage during his illness in the war, was diagnosed with Tuberculosis later on and died in 1932, being the last surviving descendant of the family. Major Gordon wrote in his bible "And thus our family ends".
  In 1936 Major Gordon travelled to Israel and overlooked the archaeological findings of the mosaics of the church of the Multiplying of the Loaves and Fishes. He edited the book "Church of the Multiplying of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha, Lake of Galilee, and its Mosaics" by Alfons M. Scheider in 1937.
  There is no data to this date of Major Gordon's activities during the Second World War.
  Major Gordon died peacefully on 12 August 1949. His death was mentioned in the Glasgow Herald of 13 August 1949.
caption: Major A. A. Gordon and his wife's grave in Logie Cemetery, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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