Guy Bainbridge
{{Short description|British Army general (1867–1943)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Sir Guy Bainbridge
| image = Sir (Edmund) Guy Tulloch Bainbridge.jpg
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| caption = Guy Bainbridge
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1867|11|11}}
| birth_place = Charlton, Kent, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1943|9|27|1867|11|11}}
| death_place = Leigh, Newtown, Hampshire, England
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| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = British Army
| serviceyears = 1888–1923
| rank = Major General
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| commands = 1st Division
25th Division
110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade
School of Mounted Infantry
7th Mounted Infantry
| battles = Mahdist War
Second Boer War
First World War
| awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in Despatches (10)
Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class (Ottoman Empire)
Commander of the Legion of Honour (France)
Croix de Guerre (France)
| spouse = {{marriage|Alice May Goldie|1904}}
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Major General Sir Edmund Guy Tulloch Bainbridge, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|KCB}} (11 November 1867 – 27 September 1943) was a British Army officer who commanded the 25th Division during the First World War.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Major-Gen. Sir Guy Bainbridge – Distinguished Record of Active Service |work=The Times |date= 30 September 1943 |page=7 }}
Early life and education
Bainbridge was eldest son of late Colonel Sir Edmond Bainbridge of the Royal Artillery, and Louisa Tulloch, niece of Major General Sir Alexander Murray Tulloch. He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Military career
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, the same year he was made a captain in July,{{London Gazette|issue=29877|page=4202|date=27 July 1897}}
[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BAINBRIDGE1.shtml Sir Edmund Guy Tulloch Bainbridge] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and fought at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.[http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/searchcataloguearchive/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=77159 Dix Noonan Web Medals] He commanded the 7th Mounted Infantry during the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900. In 1903 he took command of the School of Mounted Infantry at Kilworth. He was promoted to major in August 1906.{{London Gazette|issue=27944|page=5869|date=28 August 1906}}
In May 1910 he was appointed as a general staff officer, grade 2 (GSO2).{{London Gazette|issue=28367|page=3257|date=10 May 1910}} Advanced to colonel in March 1912{{London Gazette|issue=28593|page=2212|date=26 March 1912}} he was at the same time made a general staff officer, grade 1 (GSO1).{{London Gazette|issue=28593|page=2211|date=26 March 1912}}
He was promoted to temporary brigadier general in August 1914{{London Gazette|issue=28875|page=6581|date=18 August 1914|supp=y}} and fought in the First World War, from April 1915 as commander of the 110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade{{London Gazette|issue=29140|page=3946|date=23 April 1915}} and, from June 1916, when he was advanced to temporary major general,{{London Gazette|issue=29656|page=6750|date=7 July 1916}} as general officer commanding (GOC) of the Kitchener's Army 25th Division. The division went on to fight at the Battle of the Somme later that year, 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.[http://books.national-army-museum.ac.uk/25th-division-in-france-and-flanders-pr-30333.html The 25th Division in France and Flanders by Lieutenant-Colonel M Kincaid-Smith] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812192648/http://books.national-army-museum.ac.uk/25th-division-in-france-and-flanders-pr-30333.html |date=2011-08-12 }} Naval & Military Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-1-84734-103-7}}
After the war Bainbridge, promoted to major general in January 1917,{{London Gazette|issue=29886|page=15|date=29 December 1916|supp=y}} became GOC 1st Division before retiring from the army in June 1923.{{London Gazette|issue=32831|page=3976|date=5 June 1923}}
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