Tom Bridges
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Lieutenant-General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges was a British Army officer and the 19th Governor of South Australia.
Bridges in 1918
Prince Edward, the prince of Wales, and Major General Tom Bridges, GOC of the 19th (Western) Division (in centre, facing camera), after inspection of the 8th (Service) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, near Beaussart, France, 1 February 1917.
Lieutenant-General Tom Bridges, head of all British war missions to the United States, pictured here at his headquarters in Washington, D.C., 29 April 1918
Governor Tom Bridges in 1927
19th (Western) Division
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The 19th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Kitchener's Army, formed in the Great War.
Tom Bridges
…Africa, and most notably Europe during the First World War, where he was involved in the first British battle of the war at Mons, and later commanded the 19th (Western) Division during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then in the Battle of Passchendaele the following year. After the war, he served in Greece, Russia, the…
Officers of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, at Perham Down, Wiltshire, November 1914.