Andrew McNaughton
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General Andrew McNaughton CH CB CMG DSO CD PC |
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General Andrew McNaughton
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| Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations |
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In office January 1948 – December 1949 |
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| Succeeded by | John Wendell Holmes |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew George Latta McNaughton 25 February 1887 Moosomin, Northwest Territories |
| Died | 11 July 1966 (aged 79) |
| Awards |
Order of the Companions of Honour (1946) Companion of the Order of the Bath (1935) Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1919) Distinguished Service Order (1917) Canadian Forces Decoration (1955) Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1944) Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold (1946) |
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| Allegiance |
 Canada
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| Service/branch |
 Canadian Army
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| Years of service | 1909–1944 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands |
I Corps 1st Army Chief of the General Staff |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II |
General Andrew George Latta McNaughton CH CB CMG DSO CD PC (25 February 1887 – 11 July 1966) was a Canadian scientist, army officer, cabinet minister, and diplomat.
Born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan (at the time in the Northwest Territories), on 25 February 1887, McNaughton was a student at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec. He earned a B.A. from McGill University in Montreal in 1910, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, and an MSc in 1912.
McNaughton joined the Canadian militia in 1909. He took the 4th Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Force overseas with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and arrived in France in February 1915.
While there he helped make advances in the science of artillery, and was wounded twice. The need to accurately pinpoint artillery targets, both stationary and moving, led to his invention of a target detection technique using an oscilloscope which was the forerunner of radar. He sold the rights to that invention to the Government of Canada for only $10.
In March 1916 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and returned to England to take command of the newly arrived 11 (Howitzer) Brigade RCA, taking it to France in July. In early 1917 he was appointed the Counter Battery Staff Officer of the Canadian Corps. On the day before the armistice he was promoted to Brigadier-General and appointed General Officer Commanding Canadian Corps Heavy Artillery.
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