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Henry Hughes Wilson. 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
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. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War ...
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
Wilson, Sir Henry Hughes (1864–1922), 1st baronet, soldier, and politician, was born 5 May 1864 at his family home at Currygrane, near Ballinalee, Co. Longford, the second son of four sons and three daughters of James Wilson, a landowner, and his wife, Constance Grace Martha Wilson (née Hughes), daughter of a Dublin lawyer.
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. Having played a key part in preparing the British army for an effective alliance with the French in the case ...
- David Fitzpatrick
- 2008
1. Jan. 2022 · British Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, who played an important role in the War of Independence, is assassinated by IRA men in London.
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.
