Lieutenant General John Carl Murchie CB, CBE, CD (June 7, 1895 – March 5, 1966) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from December 27, 1943, until August 21, 1945.
Murchie graduated with a Military Qualification certificate from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1915 during World War I.
He remained in the army during the interwar period, where he attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1929 to 1930.
[2][3] He also served in World War II and became a General Staff Officer at National Defence Headquarters in 1939.
[4] Later that year he was appointed a Brigadier on the General Staff at Canadian Military Headquarters in England.