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Sir Arthur Lynden-Bell
Born2 January 1867[1]
Carlisle, Cumberland, England
Died14 February 1943(1943-02-14) (aged 76)
Platt, Kent, England
Service / branch British Army
Years of service1885-1924
RankMajor-General
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Mentioned in Dispatches

Major-General Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell, KCB KCMG DL JP (2 January 1867 – 14 February 1943) was a British Army officer.

Early life

Lynden-Bell was the son of Major-General Thomas Lynden Lynden-Bell and younger brother of Colonel Charles Perceval Lynden-Bell.[2] 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

He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) in May 1885.[3] 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.[3] A year later, he saw active service in the Second Boer War, commanding a mounted infantry contingent of the Buffs.[3]

In 1900, he became a Staff Captain for intelligence in the War Office and a year later was made Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General for intelligence at the War Office on 20 July 1901.[4][3] He was promoted to Major on 3 May 1902,[5] and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905. In 1907, Lynden-Bell became General Staff Officer Southern Command and in 1911, he became General Staff Officer Lowland Division.[3]

At the start of the World War 1 Lynden-Bell was Assistant Quartermaster-General of the British Expeditionary Force.[6][7] 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.[8][9] 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.[10]

Lynden-Bell was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1917.[11] In 1918 he was Director of Staff Duties at the War Office.[3]

He retired from the regular army in 1924, and in 1928 became Colonel of the Buffs, serving in the position until 1 January 1937.[3]

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.[12]

Death

Lynden-Bell died at Platt near Sevenoaks in Kent in 1943, aged 76.[12]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2714. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Obituary: Colonel Lynden-Bell". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 7 May 1934. p. 16.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Arthur Lynden-Bell". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  4. ^ "No. 27456". The London Gazette. 22 July 1902. p. 4673.
  5. ^ "No. 27436". The London Gazette. 23 May 1902. p. 3382.
  6. ^ "No. 29467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 February 1916. p. 1488.
  7. ^ "No. 29202". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 June 1915. p. 6112.
  8. ^ "Sir Charles Monro's First Despatch". 6 March 1916. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  9. ^ "No. 29541". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 April 1916. p. 3784.
  10. ^ 'Imperial Warrior: The Life & Times of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936', by Lawrence James (Pub. Wiedendeld & Nicholson, 1993), P.120.
  11. ^ "No. 30081". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 May 1917. p. 4919.
  12. ^ a b Lynden-Bell, Major-General Sir Arthur, KCB, KCMG, Obituaries in 1943, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1944. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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