Guy Bainbridge

Sir Guy Bainbridge
Major-General Sir Guy Bainbridge
Born (1867-11-11)11 November 1867
Died 27 September 1943(1943-09-27) (aged 75)
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1888-1923
Rank Major-General
Commands held
Battles/wars
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Sir (Edmund) Guy (Tulloch) Bainbridge, KCB (11 November 1867 - 27 September 1943) was a British Army officer who commanded 25th Division during the First World War.

Military career

Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[1] Bainbridge joined the Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) in 1888 and took part in the Dongola expedition in 1896 and the Nile expedition of 1897[2] and fought at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.[1] He commanded the 7th Mounted Infantry during the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900.[1] In 1903 he took command of the School of Mounted Infantry at Kilworth.[1] He fought in the European War, from April 1915, as Commander of 110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade and, from June 1916, as General Officer Commanding 25th Division.[2] The Division went on to fight at the Battle of the Somme, at the Battle of Messines, at the Battle of Passchendaele, in the German offensive of March/April 1918 and at the Battle of Aisne under his leadership.[3] After the War he became General Officer Commanding 1st Infantry Division before retiring in 1923.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dix Noonan Web Medals
  2. 1 2 3 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ↑ The 25th Division in France and Flanders by Lieutenant-Colonel M Kincaid-Smith Naval & Military Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84734-103-7
Military offices
Preceded by
Peter Strickland		 General Officer Commanding the 1st Infantry Division
1919–1923		 Succeeded by
Archibald Montgomery


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