Geoffrey Feilding

Major General Sir Geoffrey Percy Thynne Feilding KCB KCVO CMG DSO (21 September 1866 – 21 October 1932) was Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District.

Military career
Feilding was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1888.

He served in the Second Boer War, being mentioned in despatches twice, and in World War I, being mentioned in despatches seven times.

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards in 1914. He went on to be Commander of 149th Brigade in April 1915 and Commander of 1st (Guards) Brigade later that year. He was made General Officer Commanding the Guards Division in 1916 to 1918. A war memorial, unveiled by Feilding, honours the battlefield at Ginchy where many British soldiers from the Guards Division fell during the Battle of the Somme.

After the War he became Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District and then in 1923 he was made General Officer Commanding 56th (1st London) Division. He retired in 1927.

He is buried at St. Editha's Church in Monks Kirby.