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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet

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Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet GCB, DSO

 

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Late Field Marshal Sir Henry Sir Henry Wilson (1922)

 

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Funeral Of Sir H Wilson Aka Funeral Of Sir Henry Wilson (1922)

 

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Ulster Cenotaph (1921)

 

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Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
  • Personal 

  • Family background 

  • Junior officer 

  • Marriage 

  • Staff College 

  • Staff officer 

  • Tensions mount 

  • Under Buller in Natal 

  • On Roberts' staff 

  • Repington divorce 

  • War Office 

  • Battalion commander 

  • Military education and training 

  • Esher reforms and General Staff 

  • Appointment 

  • Doctrine 

  • Lecturing style 

  • Succession 

  • Initial decisions 

  • Early 1911 

  • Second Moroccan crisis 

  • CID meeting 

  • Late 1911 

  • 1912 

  • 1913 

  • Family political tradition 

  • Crisis brews 

  • The incident 

  • Effects 

  • Outbreak of war 

  • Sub Chief of Staff, BEF: deployment 

  • Sub Chief of Staff, BEF: retreat 

  • Succession to Murray 

  • Principal Liaison Officer 

  • Appointment as corps commander 

  • Corps Commander: Spring 1916 

  • Corps Commander: summer and autumn 1916 

  • Mission to Russia 

  • Chief of British Mission, French Army 

  • Possible entry into politics 

  • Eastern Command 

  • Supreme War Council 

  • German March offensive 

  • Spring battles 

  • Summer battles 

  • Allied victory 

  • Demobilisation and defence cuts 

  • Versailles Treaty 

  • Promotion and honours 

  • Labour unrest and Anglo-Soviet trade talks 

  • World commitments 

  • Escalating crisis 

  • Martial law 

  • Truce 

  • Member of Parliament and Ulster adviser 

  • Assassination 

  • Possible Michael Collins involvement 

  • Government reaction 

  • Funeral 

  • Personality 

  • Obituaries 

  • Immediate assessments 

  • Policies 

  • Modern biographies and popular culture