Tom Bridges

:"For the United States Congressman, see George Washington Bridges."Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB KCMG DSO (known as Sir Tom Bridges, 20 August 1871–26 November 1939) was a British military officer and Governor of South Australia.

He joined the Royal Artillery in 1892. He commanded Australian Mounted infantry in the Boer War in South Africa 1899 - 1901.

He was Governor of South Australia from 4 December 1922 until 4 December 1927. The appointment was made at the instigation of his friend Winston Churchill. He was a nephew of the Poet Laureate of England, Robert Bridges, who honoured him with an ode "To His Excellency".

He wrote several books:
* "Alarms and excursions: reminiscences of a soldier" (Longmans & Co, London, 1938)
* compiler, "Word from England: an anthology of prose and poetry" (English Universities Press, London, 1940)
* Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi, "Cavalry in war and peace" translated from the German by Major George Tom Molesworth Bridges (Hugh Rees, London, 1910)

External links

* [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/BRIDGES.html British Military archives]
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070413b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography]