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- In 1939, like many thousands of his contemporaries, Lionel Wigram joined the British army at the outbreak of the war.
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In 1939, like many thousands of his contemporaries, Lionel Wigram joined the British army at the outbreak of the war. Already commissioned in the Territorial Army, he went on active duty and was commissioned as a Captain into the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
Like many thousands of his contemporaries, Lionel Wigram (1907-44), a London-based solicitor and property developer, joined the British army at the outbreak of the Second World War. Already commissioned in the Territorial Army, he joined the Colours as a captain.
- Tim Harrison Place
- 2000
Lionel joined the Territorial army in 1936 and was a Captain when the war started. He was a well known public figure and after Dunkirk was given the job of evacuating the south coast towns. In the process he became acquainted with General Paget.
Like many thousands of his contemporaries, Lionel Wigram (1907-44), a London-based solicitor and property developer, joined the British army at the outbreak of the Second World War.
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The son of Maurice Wigram, Lionel Wigram was born in Sheffield and later moved to Surrey, becoming a London solicitor and property developer. Wigram was educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield from 1918 to 1925 and The Queen's College, Oxford. He was married to Mrs. Olga Wigram née Jokelson and the couple had a daughter, Denia. She was the ...
In 1939 like many thousands of his contemporaries, Lionel Wigram joined the British army at the outbreak of the war. Already commissioned in the Territorial Army, he went on active duty and was commissioned as a Captain into the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). He was among the founders of the 47th (London) Infantry Division School of Bat...
At the outbreak of World War II the British Army battle drill developed during the First World War and revived by the then Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander in I Corps after Dunkirk, was the method of teaching infantry minor tactics. Wigram played the leading part in spreading this training technique to the whole of the Home Army. While studying ...
Lionel Wigram (born 1961) the British film producer and screenplay writer based in Los Angeles was named after his paternal grandfather, Maj Lionel Wigram.[citation needed]
Marco Patricelli, I banditi della libertà : la straordinaria storia della Brigata Maiella, partigiani senza partito e soldati senza stellette (Bandits of freedom: The extraordinary story of the Mai...Sir Denis Forman, To Reason Why, Abacus, 1993 (reprint 2008). ISBN 0-349-10507-3.Harrison Place, Military Training in the British Army 1940–44, Frank Cass, 2000 ISBN 0-7146-5037-4.Ben Shepard, A War of Nerves, Harvard University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-674-01119-8.Harrison Place, "Lionel Wigram, battle drill and the British Army in the Second World War", War in History, vol. 7, no. 4 (2000), pp. 442–462.Lionel Wigram, Battle Drill and the British Army in the Second World War T. Harrison Place. War In History ; London Vol. 7, Iss. 4, (Apr 2000): 442-462.
Aug 2, 2018 · It took Lionel Wigram, an unconventional Territorial Army captain who had never seen combat, to resurrect battle drill in the British Army in 1942. [24] The interwar Indian Army, unlike the British, embraced a de facto battle drill doctrine in order to succeed in the increasingly dangerous fighting on the Frontier.
