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Arthur Lynden-Bell
British Army general (1867–1943) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Major General Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell, KCB KCMG DL JP (2 January 1867 – 14 February 1943) was a British Army officer.
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Early life
Lynden-Bell was the son of Major-General Thomas Lynden Lynden-Bell and younger brother of Colonel Charles Perceval Lynden-Bell.[3] He was educated at Clifton College."Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p88: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
Military career
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He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) in May 1885.[4] After promotion to captain on 31 January 1894, he served the following year on the North West Frontier of British India and attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1898.[4] A year later, he saw active service in the Second Boer War, commanding a mounted infantry contingent of the Buffs.[4] He was wounded, and returned home on the SS Greek in March 1900.[5]
In May 1900, he became a Staff Captain for intelligence in the War Office, and the following year he was made Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General for intelligence at the War Office on 20 July 1901.[6][4] He was promoted to major on 3 May 1902,[7] and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905. In January 1907 he succeeded Hugh Bruce Williams as a deputy assistant adjutant general.half-pay]].[8] Later that year, Lynden-Bell became a general staff officer, grade 2 of Southern Command. In July 1908 he was appointed as a lieutenant colonel.[9]
He relinquished this assignment in April 1911 and was then placed on half-pay.[10] This lasted until October when, reverting to normal pay, he became a general staff officer, grade 2 of the Lowland Division (later the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division).[11][4] He was promoted to colonel while serving in this position, dated to March 1912.[12]
At the start of the World War I Lynden-Bell was, in February 1915, promoted to temporary brigadier general and succeeded Major General George Milne as brigadier general, general staff of III Corps.[13] In July he was promoted again, now to temporary major general, and became major general, general staff of the newly created Third Army.[14] He was later the assistant quartermaster general of the British Expeditionary Force.[15][16] In 1915 he served as Chief of General Staff of the Mediterranean and Egypt Expeditionary Force, and saw service in the Gallipoli campaign, being Mentioned in dispatches.[17][18] In 1916-1917 he was the Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Sir Archibald Murray, but was removed from the post and returned home in mid-1917 soon after the arrival of Edmund Allenby in Cairo to replace Murray.[19]
Lynden-Bell was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1917.[20] In 1918 he was Director of Staff Duties at the War Office.[4]
He retired from the regular army in 1924, and in 1928 became Colonel of the Buffs, serving in the position until 1 January 1937.[4]
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Later years
In retirement, he served as a Deputy Lieutenant and as a Justice of the Peace[1] and was a "very keen supporter" of Kent County Cricket Club, always attending Canterbury Cricket Week in the Buff's tent at the St Lawrence Ground.[21]
Death
Lynden-Bell died at Platt near Sevenoaks in Kent in 1943, aged 76.[21]
Personal life
He married the Hon. Bertha Marion Akers-Douglas, daughter of Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston and Adeline Mary Austen-Smith, on 2 June 1905.
Cultural references
He appears in the war memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.[citation needed]
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