Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston, Major-General

Born in 1858;

• Joined 77 (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt of Foot, 1878;
• Adjutant 2 Bn Middlesex Regt, 1882-1886;
• Capt, 1885;
• graduated Staff College, 1888;
• Aide de Camp to Governor of Bermuda, 1889-1892;
• Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Eastern District, 1894-1897;
• Maj, 1896; Staff Captain Intelligence Div, War Office, 1898-1899;
• Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Div, War Office, 1899-1901;
• served with 2 Bn Middlesex Regt in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1901-1902;
• temporary Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1902-1904;
• Lt Col, 1904;
• Military Attache to Brussels, The Hague, and the Scandinavian Courts, 1904-1906;
• Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1906;
• Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1906-1910;
• Brevet Col, 1907;
• Assistant Director of Military Training and General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1910-1914;
• Col, 1910;

Served World War One, 1914-1918;

• Commanded British forces at the capture of Tsingtao, North China, 1914; Japan and Britain formed an alliance against the Germans in China (see The Advertiser, Adelaide, SA - 14 Dec 1914, page 9 - attached under Sources)
• Maj Gen, 1914;
• Commander 39 Div, 1915-1916;
• Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, 1916-1919;

Died 1919. (FindAGrave.com site reads

• "BARNARDISTON, NATHANIEL WALTER
• Rank:Major General
• Age:60
• General Staff and Middlesex Regiment
• Awards:C B, M V O
• Grave ReferenceWest of Church.
• CemeteryGREAT HENNY (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
• Order of the Rising Sun 2nd Class (Japan). Commander of the Orders of Osmanieh, Dannebrog, Sword, Leopold and St. Olaf.
• Son of the late Col. Nathaniel Barnardiston, of The Ryes, Sudbury, Suffolk, and of Lady Florence Barnardiston.
• Served in the South African War with 2nd Bn. Middlesex Regt. Commanded British troops at Capture of Tsingtao (1914)"

Publications: Handbook of the Belgian Army,(War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1899); Handbook of the French Army, (War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1901).