William Bridges
Australian general (1861-1915) · Australia · On the map · Died at 54
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.
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![General Bridges' grave at Duntroon. The consultant designer and architect was Walter Burley Griffin[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/GnlBridgesGrave.jpg/1280px-GnlBridgesGrave.jpg)
General Bridges' grave at Duntroon. The consultant designer and architect was Walter Burley Griffin[1]
General Bridges is listed on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
Group portrait of members of the Second Class at the RMC, Duntroon, with their officers and sergeant majors, December 1913. Brigadier General W. T. Bridges, the college's commandant, is sat in the centre of the front row.
Group portrait of 1st Division staff officers at Mena Camp, December 1914. Major General Bridges is in the front row, fifth from the left.Awards
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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.