ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS. Reminiscences of A Soldier 1892- 1937.
London. Published by longmans Green and Co., 1938. Foreword by Winston Churchill. First Edition. 8vo. pp.xi + 361 frontispiece. index. The foredges are marked Original maroon cloth in a chipped nicked price clipped dust wrapper.The dust wrapper is scarce. Item #195679
"Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB KCMG DSO , 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 to 1927. "
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