biography
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Wilson, Sir Henry Hughes
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| lived:
| (1864–1922)
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| biography:
| British field marshal, born in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, C Ireland. He served in Burma and the Boer War, was commander of the Staff College (1910–14), entered World War 1 as director of military operations (1914), and rose to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1918–22). He was knighted in 1919. He left the army in 1922 and became MP for North Down, but was assassinated by two Irish ex-servicemen on the doorstep of his house in London. |
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