Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman

[5] For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, in so skilfully training and-leading his company in an attack as to inflict heavy casualties upon the enemy with hardly any personal losses.

He afterwards displayed great resource in keeping his headquarters informed of the situation, in spite of heavy hostile barrage, during which he was wounded, but remained at his post, showing a fine example to all ranks.After the war, he was private secretary to his father in 1918 and became captain in 1921.

His fellow students included Oliver Leese, Philip Christison, Eric Hayes, Evelyn Barker, Eric Dorman-Smith, John Whiteley, Ronald Penney, Clement West, Wilfred Lloyd, Stanley Kirby and John Hawkesworth.

[6] Bridgeman retired on half-pay in 1937, however was reactivated to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) with the outbreak of the Second World War.

[9] Bridgeman was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the New Year's Honours 1944,[10] and became honorary colonel of the 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1949.

[11] Bridgeman served as treasurer of the Royal Salop Infirmary at Shrewsbury in 1946, and 1948 when the hospital was taken over by the National Health Service.