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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. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War ...
- 1882–1922
- British Army
1. Mai 2024 · Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Baronet (born May 5, 1864, near Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ire.—died June 22, 1922, London, Eng.) 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wilson, Sir Henry Hughes. 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 ...
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
22. Juni 2020 · Henry Wilson was the most senior British military or political figure to die during the Irish revolution and his death inadvertently triggered the outbreak of the Irish Civil War just six days later. Who was Henry Wilson? Henry Wilson was a hate figure for Irish Republicans.
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.
