Frederick Stanley Maude (24 June 1864-18 November 1917) was a British Army lieutenant-general who served in the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I.
Biography[]
Stanley Maude was born in Gibraltar in 1864, the son of Frederick Francis Maude. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1883 and served in the Coldstream Guards during the Mahdist War and the Second Boer War, attaining the rank of major in 1899 and colonel in 1911. During World War I, Maude was promoted to brigadier-general and was wounded in France in April 1915 before being given command of the 33rd Division. Maude commanded the 13th Division in the Gallipoli campaign and was the last man evacuated from Suvla Bay, and he was later sent to Mesopotamia to replace George Gorringe as commander of the Tigris Corps. Maude reorganized and resupplied his British and Indian forces before capturing Baghdad in March 1917, but he died of cholera after drinking unboiled milk. He died in the same house as German field marshal Colmar von der Goltz nineteen months earlier.