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  2. 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.

  3. Jun 18, 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.

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  4. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet GCB, DSO (born on the 5th May in 1864 – died on the 22nd of June in 1922, shot by the IRA) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish Unionist politician.

  5. Learn about the life and death of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, a senior British army officer and MP who was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army in 1922. Find out his role in the First World War, the Anglo-French mission to Russia, and the Irish War of Independence.

  6. Apr 1, 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.

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  7. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, G.C.B. D.S.O. was born on 5 May 1864 in Currygrane, near Ballinalee and was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War.

  8. Jun 22, 2019 · 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.