Arthur Lynden-Bell
Major General Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell, was a British Army officer.
Early life
Lynden-Bell was the son of Major-General Thomas Lynden Lynden-Bell and younger brother of Colonel Charles Perceval Lynden-Bell. He was educated at Clifton College."Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p88: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948Military career
He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) in May 1885. After promotion to captain on 31 January 1894, he served the following year on the North West Frontier of British India and attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1898. A year later, he saw active service in the Second Boer War, commanding a mounted infantry contingent of the Buffs. He was wounded, and returned home on the SS Greek in March 1900.In May 1900, he became a Staff Captain for intelligence in the War Office, and the following year he was made Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General for intelligence at the War Office on 20 July 1901. He was promoted to major on 3 May 1902, and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1905. In January 1907 he succeeded Hugh Bruce Williams as a deputy assistant adjutant general.half-pay. Later that year, Lynden-Bell became a general staff officer, grade 2 of Southern Command. In July 1908 he was appointed as a lieutenant colonel.
He relinquished this assignment in April 1911 and was then placed on half-pay. This lasted until October when, reverting to normal pay, he became a general staff officer, grade 2 of the Lowland Division. He was promoted to colonel while serving in this position, dated to March 1912.
At the start of the World War I Lynden-Bell was, in February 1915, promoted to temporary brigadier general and succeeded Major General George Milne as brigadier general, general staff of III Corps. In July he was promoted again, now to temporary major general, and became major general, general staff of the newly created Third Army. He was later the assistant quartermaster general of the British Expeditionary Force. In 1915 he served as Chief of General Staff of the Mediterranean and Egypt Expeditionary Force, and saw service in the Gallipoli campaign, being Mentioned in dispatches. In 1916-1917 he was the Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Sir Archibald Murray, but was removed from the post and returned home in mid-1917 soon after the arrival of Edmund Allenby in Cairo to replace Murray.
Lynden-Bell was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1917. In 1918 he was Director of Staff Duties at the War Office.
He retired from the regular army in 1924, and in December 1928 became colonel of the Buffs in succession to General Sir Arthur Paget serving in the position until 1 January 1937.