Lieut Gen Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges Speaks at Washington Barracks

General Tom Bridges Speaks at Washington Barracks

Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges (1871-1939), also known as Sir Tom Bridges, served as an officer in the British Army and as Governor of South Australia.

It was in front of then the United States Army War College or Roosevelt Hall (It has now become the National War College) where Tom Bridges Speaks at Washington Barracks in 1916 to a crowd of Washingtonians about World War I.

Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB KCMG DSO

KCB Knight Commander of Bath

KCMG Knight Commander (of the Order) of St Michael and St George

DSO Distinguished Service Order

Knight Grand Cross KGC

At the beginning of World War I, Major George Tom Molesworth Bridges commanded C Squadron 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards which had the distinction of being the first unit of WW1 to go into action against the Germans, on the Soignes road, on 22nd Aug 1914.

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His Memoirs

Alarms and Excursions:

Reminiscences of a Soldier

Obituary

HOVE, England, Nov. 26 (UP)– Lieut. Gen. Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges, who used a tin whistle and a toy drum to rally the British troops retreating from Mons during the World War, died today in a nursing home here after a long illness. His age was 68.

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