Major-General Sir Guy (Tulloch) Bainbridge KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (11 November 1867 - 1943) was a British Army

British Army

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 officer who commanded 25th Division

25th Division (United Kingdom)

The 25th Division of the British Army was raised for the Third New Army during September 1914. It served on the Western Front for most of the First World War. The component units were assembled around Salisbury and moved to Aldershot in May 1915 to complete their training...

 during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

.

Military career

Educated at Marlborough College

Marlborough College

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 and the Royal Military College Sandhurst

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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, 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 and fought at the Battle of Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

 in 1898. He commanded the 7th Mounted Infantry during the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

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 and took part in the Battle of Paardeberg

Battle of Paardeberg

The Battle of Paardeberg or Perdeberg was a major battle during the Second Anglo-Boer War. It was fought near Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modder River in the Orange Free State near Kimberley....

 in 1900. In 1903 he took command of the School of Mounted Infantry at Kilworth

Kilworth

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. He fought in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, from April 1915, as Commander of 110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade and, from June 1916, as General Officer Commanding

General Officer Commanding

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 25th Division

25th Division (United Kingdom)

The 25th Division of the British Army was raised for the Third New Army during September 1914. It served on the Western Front for most of the First World War. The component units were assembled around Salisbury and moved to Aldershot in May 1915 to complete their training...

. The Division went on to fight at the Battle of the Somme, at the Battle of Messines

Battle of Messines

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, at the Battle of Passchendaele, in the German offensive of March/April 1918 and at the Battle of Aisne

Third Battle of the Aisne

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 under his leadership. After the War he became General Officer Commanding 1st Infantry Division before retiring in 1923.