# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bridges
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:25.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bridges"
name: "William Bridges"
slug: "william-bridges"
description: "Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff. During the First World War he commanded the 1st Australian Division at Gallipoli, where he died of wounds on 18 May 1915, becoming the first Australian general officer to be killed during the war. He was the first Australian officer—and the first graduate of Kingston—to reach the rank of major general, the first to command a division, and the first to receive a knighthood. He is one of only two Australians killed in action in the Great War to be interred in Australia."
tagline: "Australian general (1861–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Throsby_Bridges.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1861-02-18"
deathDate: "1915-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             5.757575757575757
  historical:           5.684630666666667
  currentAttention:     31.98653198653199
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Throsby Bridges"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Throsby_Bridges"
    title: "William Throsby Bridges"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bridges_(general)"
    title: "William Bridges (general)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "ویلیام بریج تروسبی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump