Major General Sir Edmund Guy Tulloch Bainbridge, (11 November 1867 – 27 September 1943) was a

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officer who commanded the 25th Division during the

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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

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and the

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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, Sir Edmund Guy Tulloch Bainbridge
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in 1898.Dix Noonan Web Medals
/ref> He commanded the 7th Mounted Infantry during the

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and took part in the

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in 1900. In 1903 he took command of the School of Mounted Infantry at Kilworth. He was promoted to major in August 1906. In May 1910 he was appointed as a general staff officer, grade 2 (GSO2). Advanced to colonel in March 1912 he was at the same time made a general staff officer, grade 1 (GSO1). He was promoted to temporary brigadier general in August 1914 and fought in the

, from April 1915 as commander of the 110th (Leicester) Infantry Brigade and, from June 1916, when he was advanced to temporary major general, as

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(GOC) of the

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25th Division. The division went on to fight at the

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later that year, at the Battle of Messines, at the

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, in the German offensive of March/April 1918 and at the Battle of Aisne under his leadership.''The 25th Division in France and Flanders'' by Lieutenant-Colonel M Kincaid-Smith
Naval & Military Press, 2006, After the war Bainbridge, promoted to major general in January 1917, became GOC 1st Division before retiring from the army in June 1923.

References

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