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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.
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Baronet (born May 5, 1864, near Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ire.—died June 22, 1922, London, Eng.) 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 22nd June 1922, Field-Marshall Sir Henry Hughes Wilson walked through the streets of Belgravia in full military uniform, having just unveiled the Great Eastern Railway War Memorial at Liverpool Street Station. When he reached 36 Eaton Place, he was fatally shot by two members of the Irish Republican Army.
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.
Jun 22, 2022 · A plaque was unveiled in the House of Commons on Wednesday to remember an Ulster Unionist MP who was shot dead by Irish republicans 100 years ago. Sir Henry Wilson reached the rank of field...
Feb 24, 2023 · Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864-1922) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during WWI. Wilson also played a role in the Irish War of Independence and served briefly as a politician before his assassination in 1922.
