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Wilson was initially offered the job of "Brigadier-General of Operations" but as he was already a major-general he negotiated an upgrade in his title to "Sub Chief of Staff". Edmonds , Kirke and Murray all claimed after the war that French had wanted Wilson as Chief of Staff, but this had been vetoed because of his role in the Curragh Mutiny ; no contemporary evidence, even Wilson's diary ...
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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Wilson went to France with the BEF as sub-chief of the general staff. At the end of 1914 Sir John French (qv), C-in-C of the BEF, wanted to promote Wilson to be chief of staff, but this was blocked by Asquith and Lord Kitchener (qv), the secretary for war; their antipathy to Wilson was shared by French's successor, Sir Douglas Haig, and Wilson ...
- The Assassination
- Who Was Henry Wilson?
- A Fraught Context
- Who Ordered The Killing?
- The Fallout
- References
On June 22, 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson arrived back, by taxi, at his home on Eaton Square London. The 58 year old had been at the unveiling of a war memorial to the fallen of the Great War at Liverpool Street station. Unknown to him he had been followed home by two Irish veterans of that war, Joe O’Sullivan and Reggie Dunne, the former ha...
Henry Wilson was a hate figure for Irish Republicans. He was at the time of his death in 1922, a field marshal of the British Army, the highest rank that one could attain in that force, in which he had served since 1881, though wars in Burma, South Africa and the Great War in 1914-18. Born into a Protestant, landowning Irish family with extensive l...
The killing of Wilson was a decisive factor, as we shall see, in the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. As a result, who ordered the shooting and why remains a source of great controversy to this day. It occurred at a particularly sensitive time, when the IRA had split into antagonistic factions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The pro-Treaty faction org...
There were thus reasonable suspicions on at least three groups for the killing of Henry Wilson; Michael Collins and pro-Treaty forces, the Four Courts garrison of the anti-Treaty IRA or possibly the London battalion of the IRA acting independently. Ordering the killing would fit with Collins’ aggressive posture on the North from early 1922 onwards,...
Whatever the truth is, for the British government, who, not unnaturally, given that the Four Courts garrison were making loud noises about declaring war on them, assumed the anti-Treaty IRA were responsible, the assassination was the last straw. On June 22nd the same day as the assassination of Wilson, a letter arrived in Dublin, addressed to Colli...
For an account of the assassination see Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green, the Irish Civil War, p112 Charles Townshend, , The Republic, the Fight for Irish Independence, pp.150, 142 Charles Townshend, The Republic, the Fight for Irish Independence, p.139 Michael Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence, p.184 Dorothy Macardle, The Irish Republ...
Wilson expected to be appointed Chief of Staff to Sir John French - the inevitable Commander-in-Chief - in the event of war. However his support for the Curragh Mutiny made such an appointment unacceptable to the Liberal government.
Apr 1, 2008 · Having played a key part in preparing the British army for an effective alliance with the French in the case of German aggression, he had presided over the Imperial General Staff (C.I.G.S.) during the final year of conflict without losing either his nerve or the war.
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Jun 22, 2019 · As Sub Chief of Staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Wilson was Sir John French 's most important advisor during the 1914 campaign, but his poor relations with Haig and Robertson saw him sidelined from top decision-making in the middle years of the war.
