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Major General Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston, CB, MVO (29 November 1858 – 18 August 1919) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Barnardiston was commissioned into the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot in 1878. After seeing active service in the Second Boer War, he became military attaché to Brussels, The Hague and the Scandinavian Courts in 1902, Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1906 and assistant director of Military Training in 1910. He saw action in the First World War during the Siege of Tsingtao in autumn 1914, before becoming General Officer Commanding 39th Division in August 1915, six months after being promoted to major general. He went on to be Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal, for which he was appointed a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ, before his death in August 1919.

References

1. "Nathaniel Barnardiston". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
2. ^ "Barnardiston, Nathaniel Walter". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
3. Willmott, H.P. (2003). First World War (1st ed.). Dorling Kindersley. p. 91. ISBN 978-1405300292.
4. "No. 29074". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 February 1915. p. 1685.
5. "No. 13511". The Edinburgh Gazette. 9 October 1919. p. 3369.

• 1858 births
• 1919 deaths
• Military personnel from Suffolk
• British Army generals of World War I
• British Army major generals
• Companions of the Order of the Bath
• Members of the Royal Victorian Order
• Middlesex Regiment officers
• British military attachés
• 19th-century British Army personnel