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(Thomas) Herbert Shoubridge CB, CMG, DSO (1871–1923) was a

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officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Military career

Shoubridge was commissioned into the

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as a

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on 5 March 1893. He was promoted to

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on 18 June 1896, and took part in the

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to the North West Frontier of

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in 1897. Following the outbreak of the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

in late 1899, he became deputy assistant adjutant general for the Natal Army. He transferred to the

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and was promoted

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on 9 May 1900, and received a

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promotion as

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dated 29 November 1900 in the South African Honours list of 1901. After the war ended in June 1902, he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Headquarters, South Africa Command. He was appointed

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for the 13th Brigade in 1906 and then served as a general staff officer with Western Command and then Southern Command. Major-General Shoubridge and staff Italy 1918 IWM Q 27001

Major-General Shoubridge and staff Italy 1918 IWM Q 27001

He fought in

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as assistant adjutant and quartermaster general for 2nd Army Corps from 1914 and as assistant quartermaster general for 4th Army Corps from 1915. He was appointed Commander of 54th Infantry Brigade in France later that year. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 7th Infantry Division in 1917Army Commands
and General Officer Commanding of

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from 1919 and was then briefly Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1923 before his resignation due to ill health. He lived at Lawrenny Castle near

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Family

In 1910 he married Constance Gladys Dugdale; they had a daughter and a son.

References

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