Ord Tidbury

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Ord Tidbury
Born(1888-12-10)10 December 1888
Died14 July 1961(1961-07-14) (aged 72)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch
Mentioned in despatches (3)
Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy

Brigadier Ord Henderson Tidbury, MC (10 December 1888 – 14 July 1961), was a senior officer in the British Army.

Early life and family

Ord Henderson Tidbury was born on December 10, 1888,

Sir Charles Henderson Tidbury (1926–2003), who married Anne, daughter of Brigadier H. E. Russell.[5] Beryl Tidbury was a founder of the Hong Kong Fellowship for supporting relatives of British prisoners of war; she died in 1955.[6] Four years later, Ord Tidbury married Joan Windham, the daughter of Ashe Windham. After her husband's death, she married Major Hugh D'Oyly Lyle (died 1977), son of Colonel Thomas Lyle and a descendant of the D'Oyly baronets, and died in 1990.[2]

Military career

Tidbury was gazetted a

Italian Order of the Crown (5th Class).[1]

After his work in Germany, Tidbury was employed by the Foreign Office as part of the North Silesian Plebiscite Commission until 1922. He held various postings as a general staff officer between then and 1935 at the War Office and in Egypt. Promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel in July 1937, Tibury received the full rank on New Year's Day 1936 and exactly seven months later became a colonel.[1] In these capacities, he commanded the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.[7] On August 22, 1938, he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier and given command of the 18th Infantry Brigade, then serving in Mandatory Palestine during the Arab revolt.[1][7] He held this post until 1940, and between 1940 and 1941 he commanded the British troops in Crete.[7]

He died on July 14, 1961.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d The Half-Yearly Army List: January 1939, 1939 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office), p. 148
  2. ^ a b Mosley, Charles (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage and Gentry), vol. 1, p. 463
  3. ^ a b "Marriages", Times (London), 7 June 1924, p. 15
  4. Royal Military College Sandhurst
    between 1900 and 1910. During the First World War, he was in charge of the Woking Military Hospital.
  5. ^ "Tidbury, Sir Charles (Henderson)", Who Was Who, April 2014 (A. & C. Black/Oxford University Press). Retrieved 5 March 2016
  6. ^ "Mrs. O. H. Tidbury", Times (London), 21 January 1955, p. 10
  7. ^ a b c d "Obituary", Times (London), 17 July 1961, p. 18

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