Thomas Baldock


Thomas Stanford Baldock was a British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Baldock was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in April 1873. He saw action in the Second Boer War and subsequently commanded a column of Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles in South Africa for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He became Commander, Royal Artillery for Aldershot Command in August 1907 and then General Officer Commanding the West Riding Division in September 1911. After taking his division to France in April 1915, he commanded it on the Western Front during the First World War but was seriously wounded by shell fire north west of Ypres in July 1915 and retired the following year.