(1881-09-05)5 September 1881 London, England[note 1]
Died
31 December 1964(1964-12-31) (aged 83) Chilton, Buckinghamshire, England
Buried
St. George's, Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1900–1947
Rank
Field Marshal
Service number
17547
Unit
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Commands held
British Joint Staff Mission to Washington (1944–47) Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre (1944) Middle East Command (1943–44) Persia and Iraq Command (1942–43) Ninth Army (1941–42) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan (1941) Cyrenaica (1941) British Troops in Egypt (1939–41) 2nd Infantry Division (1937–39) 6th Infantry Brigade (1934–35) 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (1927–30)
Battles/wars
Second Boer War First World War
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Passchendaele
North-West Frontier Second World War
Operation Compass
Syria-Lebanon campaign
Dodecanese campaign
Awards
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath[2] Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire[3] Distinguished Service Order[4] Mentioned in Despatches (5)[5] War Cross (Greece)[6] Virtuti Militari (Poland)[7] Army Distinguished Service Medal (United States)[8] Legion of Merit (United States)[9]
Other work
Constable of the Tower of London[10]
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 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. During the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British Troops in Egypt, in which role he launched Operation Compass, attacking Italian forces with considerable success, in December 1940. He went on to be Military Governor of Cyrenaica in February 1941, commanding a Commonwealth expeditionary force to Greece in April 1941 and General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan in May 1941.
Wilson became GOC Ninth Army in Syria and Palestine in October 1941, GOC Persia and Iraq Command in August 1942 and GOC Middle East Command in February 1943. He was Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean from January 1944 and Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington D. C. from January 1945 until 1947.
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^"No. 36544". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 August 1944. p. 2567.
^"No. 35094". The London Gazette. 4 March 1941. p. 1304.
^"No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1917. pp. 19–28.
^"No. 36065". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 June 1943. p. 2853.
^"No. 35519". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 April 1942. p. 1595.
^"No. 36828". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 December 1944. p. 5616.
^"No. 37442". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 January 1946. p. 651.
^"No. 37521". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 April 1946. p. 1726.
^"No. 40557". The London Gazette. 9 August 1955. p. 4559.
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