Herbert Shoubridge

Major General (Thomas) Herbert Shoubridge CB, CMG, DSO (15 June 1871 – 27 October 1923) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

[6] After the war ended in June 1902, he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Headquarters, South Africa Command.

[4] He was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in February 1914, while serving as a GSO2 with the West Lancashire Division of the Territorial Force (TF).

[4] In December 1915 he was promoted to temporary brigadier general and succeeded William Heneker in command of the 54th Infantry Brigade, part of the 18th (Eastern) Division, in France later that year.

[15] With the war now over and his division disbanded, Shoubridge, who in January 1919 was promoted to substantive major general,[16] received a new appointment as GOC of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division from 1919 and was then briefly commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in July 1923[17] before his resignation due to ill health.

Major-General Herbert Shoubridge, GOC of the 7th Division (fifth from the left), and his staff.