Thomas Snow (British Army officer)
British Army general
Biography
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow, (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British Army officer who played an important role on the Western Front during the First World War.
Born in 1858 and commissioned in 1879, Snow served in the Anglo-Zulu War and the Mahdist War and was promoted to Major General in 1910. During the First World War, he led the 4th Division during the Great Retreat of 1914, and VII Corps in both its diversionary attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the first day on the Somme in 1916 and at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
Snow was relieved from front-line duty on grounds of age in 1918, retired from the British Army in 1919, and died in 1940.
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Family
- Spouse(s)
- Geraldine Charlotte Coke
- Children
- John FitzGerald SnowGeorge Snow
- Parents
- George D'oyly SnowMaria Jane Barlow
Awards & honours (2)
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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