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Christison was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command from 1946 to 1947; he was then GOC-in-C of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle from 1947 to 1949 He was promoted to full general in August 1947. He held the honorary appointments of Aide-de-Camp General to the King (1947 to 1949) and Colonel of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (1947 to ). In 1947 he was appointed Colonel of the 10th Gurkha Rifles and in late 1949 he was also made Colonel of a Territorial Army artillery unit.
He retired from the Army in 1949 and farmed at Melrose in Scotland. During the 1950s and 1960s he was Secretary of the Scottish Education Department.
Christison married twice: to Betty Mitchell, with whom he had three daughters and a son, from 1916 until her death in 1974; and then to Vida Wallace Smith until her death in 1992. He died in 1993 at the age of 100.
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