Tom Bridges
British general
Died when: 68 years 98 days (819 months)Star Sign: Leo
Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB KCMG DSO (20 August 1871 – 26 November 1939) known as Sir Tom Bridges, was a British Army officer and the 19th Governor of South Australia.
Bridges had a distinguished military career, seeing service in Africa, India, South 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 Balkans, and Asia Minor before becoming Governor of South Australia from 1922–27.
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