Search results
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 Office, playing ...
This is a list of serving senior officers of the British Army. It includes currently serving generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, and brigadiers. [1]
NamePhotoAppointmentFormer Regiment/corpsGeneral Officer Commanding, London ...OBESimon John Malise GrahamDirector of Reserves, Army HeadquartersQueen's Own Yeomanry King's Royal Hussars ...CB, VRAssistant Chief of the General StaffRoyal SignalsCBMichael R. KeatingChief of Staff, Allied Rapid Reaction ...Army Air CorpsCBEField Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the First World War on the Somme and at Passchendaele .
Feb 26, 2024 · Maj. Gen. David Wilson, Citadel class of 1991. He currently serves as the commanding general of U.S. Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Wilson credits a lot of the...
- 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...
Major-General Christopher Colin Wilson CB CBE is a former British Army officer who became Director of Battlefield Manoeuvre and Master-General of the Ordnance. Wilson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1973.[1] He was appointed the Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of...
Feb 18, 2023 · General Wilson Mbasu Mbadi is a high-ranking military officer in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) who currently holds the position of Chief of Defense Forces, the most senior position in Uganda’s military.
