Geoffrey Feilding

Major General Sir Geoffrey Percy Thynne Feilding, KCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO (21 September 1866 – 21 October 1932) was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District from 1918 to 1920.

Military career

Feilding was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in April 1888,^[1] promoted to lieutenant on 27 November 1890, and to captain on 6 April 1898.^[2]

He served in the early part of the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900 and was present in the engagements at Belmont in November 1899, being mentioned in despatches twice, and received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He returned to South Afric] in 1902 commanding a battalion of mounted infantry and was granted the local rank of major on 20 April 1902.^[3]

Fielding later served in the First World War, being mentioned in despatches seven times.^[4] He was appointed Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards in 1914.^[1] He went on to be commander of the 149th (Northumberland) Brigade in April 1915 and commander of the 1st Guards Brigade later that year.^[1] He was General Officer Commanding Guards Division from 1916 to 1918.^[1] A war memorial, unveiled by Feilding, honours the battlefield at Ginchy where many British soldiers from the Guards Division fell during the Battle of the Somme.^[5]

After the war he became Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District and then in 1923 he was made General Officer Commanding 56th (1st London) Division.^[1] He retired in 1927.^[1]

He is buried at St. Editha's Church in Monks Kirby.^[6]

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