Nathaniel Barnardiston

Major General Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston (29 November 1858 – 18 August 1919) was a senior British Army officer. Military career Barnardiston was commissioned into the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot in 1878. After seeing active service in the Second Boer War, he became military attaché to Brussels, The Hague and the Scandinavian Courts in 1902, Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1906 and assistant director of Military Training in 1910. He saw action in the First World War during the Siege of Tsingtao in autumn 1914, before becoming General Officer Commanding 39th Division in August 1915. He went on to be Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal, for which he was appointed a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ, before his death in August 1919. References 1858 births 1919 deaths British Army major generals Companions of the Order of the Bath Members of the Royal Victorian Order