General Sir Alan George Barwys Bourne, (25 July 1882 – 24 June 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Marines. Early life and family Alan George Barwys Bourne was born on 25 July 1882, the son of Rev. Charles William Bourne (1846–1927), a teacher and clergyman. In 1875, Bourne's father had married Ada, daughter of J. McMinn. A graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, the elder Bourne served as Head Master of Bedford County School (1875–81), Inverness College (1881–89) and King's College School in Wimbledon (1889–1906). He became a Fellow of King's College, London, in 1897, and, after being ordained a priest in 1899, served in a number of ecclesiastical posts. In 1911, Bourne married Lilian Mary Poole (died 1958), daughter of Colonel Poole Gabbett, an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and his wife Edith Mary (died 1927), daughter of Major General Stewart Richardson, who commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry; they had one daughter: Elizabeth Muriel Barwys (died 2011), who married George Reginald Knox Ord, an officer in The South Wales Borderers and son of G. Knox Ord, in 1940; she married secondly in 1950, Lieutenant Colonel Norman Charles Ries, of the Royal Marines. Military career Bourne was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery as a second lieutenant on 1 September 1899. Promotions to lieutenant and captain followed on 1 July 1900 and 1 September 1910 respectively; he served on the battleship from 1903, then between 1905 and 1906, when he was transferred to the Royal Naval College, Osborne. In 1910, he was aboard HMS Balmoral Castle during the Duke of Connaught's visit to South Africa After graduating from the British Army Staff College at Camberley in 1914, Bourne was transferred to HMS Queen and then HMS Tiger in the Grand Fleet; he served on them during the First World War until 1917. Promoted to the rank of major in the Royal Marines on 6 June 1917, he was posted to France and Belgium on 23 July 1917, where he served throughout the remainder of the war. That September, he was appointed a General staff Officer (2nd grade) in France, and held the post until June 1918, when he was promoted to the 1st Division with the rank of temporary lieutenant colonel. During the war, he was mentioned in despatches twice, appointed a companion of the Distinguished Service Order and received