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Lieutenant General Sir FREDERICK STANLEY MAUDE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1916.

Date of Death

Died 18 November 1917

Age 53 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

Maude Tomb, centre of cemetery.

Iraq

Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery, Iraq: General Maude's tomb, 3 December 2016 (courtesy of the defence staff at the UK Embassy in Baghdad)

Photographer: Defence staff, UK Embassy, Baghdad

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Late Coldstream Guards
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Knight Commander of the Bath, Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Distinguished Service Order, 5 times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Son of Sir Frederick F. Maude, V.C., G.C.B., and of Lady Maude (daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bart.); husband of Lady Maude, of Hampton Court Palace. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Served in Soudan 1885; South Africa, 1899-1901; Military Secretary to Governor General of Canada, 1901-1904; Private Secretary to Secretary of State for War, 1905; D.A.A.Q.M.G., Plymouth, 1906-1908; General Staff, 2nd London Division, 1908-1909; Assistant Director, Territorial Force, War Office, 1909-1912; General Staff, 5th Division, 1912-1914; Brig. Gen. Commanding 14th Infantry Brigade, 1914, Maj. Gen. Commanding 13th Division, 1915; Lt. Gen. Commanding Tigris Corps, 1916.
  • Personal Inscription "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE" HE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT HE KEPT THE FAITH
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