Field 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...
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Baron Wilson is a title created in 1946 for Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Baron Wilson or Lord Wilson may also refer to: Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High...
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Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the second Baron, in 2009. Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881–1964)...
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Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson KCB KCMG (18 February 1859 – 16 November 1941) was a British Army officer who, throughout his long...
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succeeded by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Wilson's title became Supreme Commander, Mediterranean theater of operations. Wilson was in command for just...
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reporting mission to the country. In Greece, he served on the staff of Henry Maitland Wilson and was again almost captured during the Battle of Crete in May...
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Mediterranean by British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers became Wilson's Deputy Supreme Commander and also the...
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Beaufort's Hunt where he met, among others, the future field marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and the future air marshal Sir Edward Ellington. He was promoted...
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known as 'W' Force, after their commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Air Commodore Sir John D'Albiac commanded British air forces in...
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the Combined Policy Committee by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. It was therefore Wilson who, on 4 July 1945, under the clause of the Quebec...
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Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson succeeded Eisenhower in the Mediterranean theatre, given the title Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean. Wilson was succeeded...
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a full general when he was placed in command of the BEF, as was Henry Maitland Wilson when he was chosen to lead the Ninth Army. General Claude Auchinleck...
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Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, to British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Devers was involved in the organization, planning and leadership...
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of the Western Desert Force. He was tasked by Lieutenant-General Henry Maitland Wilson, commander of the British troops in Egypt, to push the Italian force...
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Maitland (1777–1839), son of the above, Rear admiral in the Royal Navy Frederick Maitland (1763–1848), English General, Napoleonic era Henry Maitland...
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life peer Henry J. Wilson (U.S. Army officer) (1793–1872) Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson (1859–1941), World War I British general Henry Braid Wilson (1861–1954)...
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accompanied by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers (deputy to General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the Supreme Allied Commander of the Mediterranean Theater), personally...
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stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. Its commanders were General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Lieutenant-General Sir William George Holmes. The Tenth Army...
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Force HQ", a special headquarters within AFHQ (the headquarters of Henry Maitland Wilson, the Supreme Commander Mediterranean Theatre) commanded by Lieutenant...
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a member of the Combined Policy Committee by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Even before the Quebec Agreement was signed, Akers had already...
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who married Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wilson, by whom she had three children: Captain Arthur Henry Maitland Wilson, 12th Cavalry, b 22 January 1885,...
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United Kingdom would soon be at war with Italy. Lieutenant-General Henry Maitland Wilson, commander of British forces in Egypt, was to plan for the capture...
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efforts intensified in the summer of 1943. In January 1944, after Henry Maitland Wilson expressed concern over the lack of Polish replacement troops, General...
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the Albanian front, forcing their surrender. Lieutenant-General Henry Maitland Wilson decided to withdraw all Allied forces to the Thermopylae line so...
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Dayan served under the command of British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. When they were not relieved as expected, at 04:00 on 8 June, the...
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and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892) 1964 – Henry Maitland Wilson, English field marshal (b. 1881) 1968 – George Lewis, American clarinet...
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Konstantinos Bakopoulos Georgios Tsolakoglou British Commonwealth Henry Maitland Wilson Thomas Blamey Bernard Freyberg Germany Wilhelm List Sepp Dietrich...
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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864–1922), senior British Army staff officer during the First World War and Irish unionist politician Henry Maitland Wilson...
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Konstantinos Bakopoulos Georgios Tsolakoglou British Commonwealth Henry Maitland Wilson Thomas Blamey Bernard Freyberg Germany Wilhelm List Sepp Dietrich...
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Egyptian border, leading to the Siege of Tobruk. In Greece General Henry Wilson's Force W was unable to set up an adequate defence on the Greek mainland...
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