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 =====Donald McMillan=====
-Commissioner **Donald S McMillan**.
+Commissioner **Donald McLeod McMillan** is buried in [[Kensico Cemetery]]. He entered training in 1905 from the Chicago I corps.
 ^Commissioner Donald McMillan||
 ^Rank|Commissioner|
+^Birth Date|June 8, 1887|
+^Death Date|December 3, 1969|
+^Relations|[[Harriet Blackman McMillan|Commissioner Harriet McMillan (wife)]]|
+^ |[[McMillan|McMillan Family]]|
 ====Appointments====
 ^Appointment^Rank^From^Until^
+|New York III Corps| |July 1906| |
+|Chief Secretary - [[Eastern Territory]]| | | |
 |Territorial Commander - [[Western Territory]]|Commissioner|1940|1944|
 |National Secretary - [[National Command]]|Commissioner|(1944)|1947|
-|Territorial Commander - [[Eastern Territory]]|Commissioner|1947| |
+|Territorial Commander - [[Eastern Territory]]|Commissioner|1947|1953|
+|National Commander - [[National Command]]|Commissioner|1953|1957|
 ====Commands Shifted In Salvation Army====
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 //The New York Times, March 25, 1947//
+====Obituary====
+Donald McMillan, national commander of the Salvation Army in the United States from 1953 to 1957, died yesterday in the army's Booth Memorial Hospital, Flushing, Queens. At the time of his retirement in 1957 he had served 51 years a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army.
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+McMillan became national commander in 1953 after serving six years as commander of the Eastern Territory with headquarters in New York City. His years of outsanding service brought him many awards including the Medal of Merit, the nation's highest civil award, for his contribution to the USO during World War II.
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+McMillan was born in England June 8, 1887, the son of a Salvation Army pioneer who, in the organization's early days of expansion, helped spread its activities throughout Great Britain and Canada. McMillan was commissioned in July 1906 at the New York School for Officers' Training and first served in the New York Herald Square Corps.
 ====External====
   * [[https://www.nytimes.com/1947/03/25/archives/commands-shifted-in-salvation-army-pugmire-to-give-full-time-to.html|Commands Shifted In Salvation Army]]
+  * [[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90942792/donald-mcleod-mcmillan|Find a Grave]]
+  * [[https://sawest.pastperfectonline.com/archive/3C7DA9E5-BAF0-464B-A904-120731482324|Muesum Archive]]