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{{short description|British military commander}}
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Colonel '''Gervase Francis Newport Tinley''', CB, CMG (1857 – 18 February 1918) was a British officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] who ended his career as Base Commandant at [[Marseille]]s during the First World War.

[[File:Lieutenant Gervase Francis Newport Tinley (1857-1918), of 1st Bombay Light Cavalry, a lancer, watercolour by Richard Simkin, 1883.jpg|thumb|Lieutenant G. F. N. Tinley, 1st Bombay Light Cavalry, a watercolour by [[Richard Simkin]], 1883.]]

==Early life==
Tinley was born at [[Grahamstown]] in 1857, a son of Major General Robert N. Tinley, of the [[Cape Mounted Rifles]]. He entered [[Victoria College, Jersey]], in 1868, leaving four years later to train as an officer at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].

==Career==
[[File:Portrait of Colonel Gervase Francis Newport Tinley, CB, CMG, Indian Army, by an unknown artist, circa 1910.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Colonel Tinley, by an unknown artist, circa 1910.]]
After passing through Sandhurst, in 1875 Tinley was commissioned into the [[83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot]], and in 1876 was posted to India. When in 1881 the 83rd were posted home, he transferred to the [[Bombay Army|1st (Bombay) Light Cavalry]], preferring active service in India.

He was promoted to [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] in 1887, and [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] in 1896. His service included the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North West Frontier]]'s [[Zhob]] Valley Expedition in 1882 or 1884, and the [[Third Anglo-Burmese War|Burmese Expedition]] from 1885 to 1889, in the latter of which he was wounded and his horse shot from under him. For this campaign, he was [[mentioned in despatches]]<ref>London Gazette, 2 September 1887</ref> and received a campaign medal with two clasps. He was the 1st Bombay Lancers' Squadron Commandant from 23 October 1885, officiating second in command and Cantonment Magistrate at [[Neemuch]] and took part in the affair of [[Dawlatzai]].
He accompanied the [[Dongola Expedition]] of 1896; and one to Egypt later in the same year, and went on to command the [[13th Lancers#31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers|31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]] (Staff Corps), 1st Bombay Lancers.

From 31 March 1902 he was commandant of the Staff Corps, 1st (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bombay Lancers ([[Bombay Army]]),<ref>[[Henry George Hart|Hart's]] annual army list, militia list and yeomanry cavalry list, 1903.</ref> and he was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant-colonel]] on 10 September 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27498 |page=7941 |date=25 November 1902}}</ref>

From 1905 to 1908 he was Assistant [[Adjutant General]] (AAG) to the [[7th (Meerut) Division|7th Division]] in India and represented Indian Army Officers at Empress Victoria's Funeral, 1901. He also commanded the Indian Cavalry Contingent at the Coronation of Emperor Edward VII, 1902.<ref>''The Indian Biographical Dictionary'' (1915)</ref> He was promoted to [[Colonel (British Army)|colonel]] in 1905, and appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] (CB) in 1909.

During the Great War, from 1914 till his death in 1918, he was Base Commandant on [[Line of communication|Lines of Communication]], and for his services was three times mentioned in despatches and received the CMG and Légion d'honneur ([[Croix de Guerre]]) on 14 July 1917.

He died suddenly at Marseilles, while still on active service, 18 February 1918, and was buried in the cemetery at No. 24 Avenue [[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny|General de Lattre de Tassigny]].<ref>Commonwealth War Grave, casualty 339029. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/339029/</ref>

==Some Medals and awards==
[[File:Press photograph portrait of Colonel Gervase Francis Newport Tinley, CB, CMG, Indian Army.jpg|thumb|Press photograph portrait of Colonel Tinley ([[Illustrated London News]], 1917).]]
*[[Queen's Sudan Medal]], 1896–1898;
*[[King Edward VII Coronation Medal|Coronation Medal]], 1902;
*[[Delhi Durbar#Durbar of 1903|Delhi Durbar]] Medal, 1903;
*[[Khedive]]'s Sudan Medal, 1896–1908;
*[[Legion of Honour]], 14.07.1917;
*[[India General Service Medal (1854)]] (I.G.S. '54), 2 clasps (Burma 1885–87 and 1887–89);
*[[1914 Star]] which was claimed by his son Major F.B.N. Tinley in 1919;
*His [[British War Medal|WW1 pair]] were issued by the Indian Government;
*Thrice or four times [[Mentioned in Despatches]].

==Family ==
In 1891 Tinley married firstly Elsie Benton, a daughter of William Benton Hughes, of the U.S. Army (Quartermaster Staff) (West Point Officers in the Civil War, Class of 1856). She died in 1907.<ref>''The Indian Biographical Dictionary'' (1915)</ref> Their son Francis Benton Newport Tinley M.C., (despatches), (wounded), who joined the [[9th Deccan Horse|20th Deccan Horse]] in 1911, was promoted to captain on 6 September 1915.<ref>THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 AUGUST, 1917</ref> He went on to rise to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and married Cicely Sophia and was killed in action in 1942.
On July 10, 1912, he married secondly Beryl Randall Tytherleigh EASTON at the Parish Church, St Thomas on the Bourne, Surrey, England. He was aged 54 yrs and she 21 yrs. She was the daughter of Francis Henry Tytherleigh EASTON and Charlotte Grace Isolda EASTON nee RANDALL.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

==Club==
Tinley was a member of the [[Junior Naval and Military Club]].<ref>''The Indian Biographical Dictionary'' (1915)</ref>

==References==
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