Q:Facts: - battles: second boer war world war i world war ii - allegiance: united kingdom united kingdom - death date: 28 november 1956 - commands: 41st mechanised experimental -rrb- infantry brigade presidency and assam district in bn india 9th -lrb- highland -rrb- division of the machine gun corps 7th -lrb- - awards: companion the order of st michael and st george commander of of the order of the british empire distinguished service order the order of the bath companion of - birth date: 3 july 1880 - serviceyears: 1900 -- 1939 1939 -- 1946 - name: george lindsay - branch: 23px british army - rank: major-general Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george lindsay -lrb- british army officer -rrb- .
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major general george mackintosh lindsay , cb , cmg , cbe , dso -lrb- 3 july 1880 -- 28 november 1956 -rrb- 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 9th highland 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 .