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== Gordon Sheffield Stirling

== (1886-1916) was a British officer who was posthumously awarded the Military Cross for his bravery at the Battle of Kibata.

Background
Gordon Sheffield Stirling was the son of Hugh Auchincloss Stirling and Louise Wilder Sheffield, the daughter of Joseph Benjamin Sheffield, of Saugerties NY. Stirling was the nephew of Captain Douglas Reid Kinnier D.S.C., R.N.R. Stirling was born in Liverpool in 1882 where his father was a merchant. Following his father's death in 1892, the family moved to Buckinghamshire. Stirling was educated at Blackheath School and Clare College, Cambridge where he read Part I of the Historical Tripos and Part II of the Law Tripos.

Military Career
In 1910 Stirling was commissioned in Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders). He was promoted Lieutenant in 1913 and Captain in October 1915. In 1911 Stirling was seconded from his regiment to the Foreign Office to serve as an Assistant Collector in Zanzibar. In 1914 he was appointed to the staff of the Indian Expeditionary Force in British East Africa.