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Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1. Baronet GCB DSO (* 5. Mai 1864 in Edgeworthstown, Longford, Irland; † 22. Juni 1922 in London) war ein britischer General im Ersten Weltkrieg . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 1.1 Frühe Militärkarriere. 1.2 Im Ersten Weltkrieg. 1.3 Chef des Imperialen Generalstabes. 1.4 Nachkriegszeit. 2 Literatur. 3 Weblinks. Leben.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
1. Mai 2024 · Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Baronet was a British field marshal, chief of the British imperial general staff, and main military adviser to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the last year of World War I. While in the War Office as director of military operations (1910–14), he determined that Great.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1. Apr. 2008 · Henry Hughes Wilson, born in County Longford in 1864 and murdered by two Irish ex-servicemen in Belgravia on 22 June 1922, was one of the few senior officers to emerge from the Great War with his military reputation enhanced.
- David Fitzpatrick
- 2008
Following a trip to Russia in a high-powered (though, as it turned out, futile) mission to bolster a failing ally, and a further period in Franco–British liaison, Wilson was appointed in September 1917 to head the not-very-onerous domestic eastern command.
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1. Baronet GCB DSO (* 5. Mai 1864 in Edgeworthstown, Longford, Irland; † 22. Juni 1922 in London) war ein britischer General im Ersten Weltkrieg.
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. On 22nd June 1922, Field-Marshall Sir Henry Hughes Wilson walked through the streets of Belgravia in full military uniform, having just unveiled the Great Eastern Railway War Memorial at Liverpool Street Station. When he reached 36 Eaton Place, he was fatally shot by two members of the Irish Republican Army.
