Geoffrey Bourne, Baron Bourne

General Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, Baron Bourne, (5 October 1902 – 26 June 1982) was a British Army officer.

Military career Major General Geoffrey Bourne, GOC 16th Airborne Division, talking with officers of the division during an exercise in Germany while serving with the British Army of the Rhine, 1952.

Commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1923, Bourne, promoted to lieutenant in February 1925, served in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1932, in Gibraltar from 1933 and 1934, as a student at the Staff College, Camberley in 1935 and 1936, during which time he was promoted to captain, and in Colchester in 1937. and serving for six months as a staff officer with South East Asia Command, he was commander of the 152nd (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, fighting with the regiment in Italy, before serving with I Airborne Corps as a Brigadier General Staff (BGS) fighting in Belgium. The couple had one son, the Hon. Michael Bourne (1937–2013) and one daughter. Lady Bourne died in 1990.

Bourne was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. On 22 August 1964, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Bourne, of Atherstone in the County of Warwick.

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