Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected biography/8

Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay KBE, CMG, DSO, VD (7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966) was a prominent Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. Mackay was born at Grafton, New South Wales and is best known for his action as the commander of the 6th Division during the Western Desert Campaign and Greek Campaign of World War II, and later as the commander of the Second Army. Later in life, Mackay took up the post of Australia's first High Commissioner to India, serving until May 1948.