Colonel Sir George Murray Home Stirling, 9th Baronet CBE DSO (4 September 1869 – 1 May 1949) was a Scottish British Army officer who was Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire from 1936 until 1949.
Appointed adjutant of the Burma Mounted Infantry on 15 June 1900, he saw further action in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal until October 1900, during which he was slightly wounded (26 September 1900).
[1] He served as Staff Captain at Mounted Infantry Headquarters from 18 October 1900 until 19 February 1902, when he was attached to the Royal Army Service Corps as Officer Commanding Transport in the Bloemfontein district.
[1] The war ended with the Peace of Vereeniging in June 1902, and he stepped down from his command on 21 August, leaving Cape Town for the United Kingdom on the SS Scot the following month.
[8] Stirling served in the Somaliland campaign, commanding the 7th Somali Camel Corps from 12 November 1903 to June 1904, for which he received the Africa General Service Medal and clasp.
He was appointed provost marshal to the 5th Army Corps in December 1914 and then promoted temporary lieutenant colonel in November 1915, when he was given command of the 2nd Essex Regiment.