Not to be confused with Thomas Wintringham (Liberal politician).
Thomas Henry Wintringham
Born
(1898-05-15)15 May 1898 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Died
16 August 1949(1949-08-16) (aged 51) Owmby, Lincolnshire, England
Allegiance
Spanish Republic United Kingdom
Service/branch
International Brigades
Unit
The "Abraham Lincoln" XV International Brigade
Battles/wars
Spanish Civil War
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Arkwright, Millie Baruch, Kitty Bowler
Children
4
Thomas Henry Wintringham (15 May 1898 – 16 August 1949) was a British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, Marxist, politician and author. He was a supporter of the Home Guard during the Second World War and was one of the founders of the Common Wealth Party.
World War and was one of the founders of the Common Wealth Party. TomWintringham was born 1898 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Gresham's...
first proposed in August 1936 by British writer and military theorist TomWintringham who had already travelled to Spain, but the idea was not formally raised...
Civil War, and Bowler met TomWintringham, representative of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in the city. Wintringham taught Bowler journalism...
politician) (1867–1921), British Liberal Member of Parliament 1920–1921 TomWintringham (1898–1949), British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet...
International Brigade as an officer in the British Battalion, under TomWintringham, from 1937. The brigade fought against the rightist Falangists. He...
and its 'star' writers J.B. Priestley and Spanish Civil War veteran TomWintringham; and the neo-Christian Forward March movement led by Liberal Party...
set fire with toxic gas or petrol-soaked blankets with some success. TomWintringham, a veteran of the International Brigades, later publicised his recommended...
TomWintringham made especially extensive use of the term "Blimps" to refer to this type of military officer, Orwell in his articles and Wintringham in...
and Dominion volunteers. A number of British volunteers, including TomWintringham, David Marshall and Ramona and Nat Cohen, and Scots nurse Annie Murray...
Sir Edward Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain TomWintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school (which Hulton sponsored)...
Calder Peter Thorneycroft Richard Titmuss H. G. Wells Kitty WintringhamTomWintringham Konni Zilliacus In May 1942 the committee published a Nine Point...
respect to the Western and North American warfare. During World War II, TomWintringham proposed six chronological periods, which alternate the dominance between...
but also figures as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges, Bertrand Russell, TomWintringham, Virginia Woolf, and Winston Churchill. Ruddick, Nicholas, "Science...
the day such as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett, Christopher Isherwood, TomWintringham, Stephen Spender, Ahmed Ali, Jim Phelan, Rex Warner, and B. L. Coombes...
were Clive Branson, John Cornford, Charles Donnelly, Alex McDade and TomWintringham. On the Nationalist side, the most famous English-language poet of...
Wesker Harry Wicks Ellen Wilkinson Raymond Williams Alan Winnington TomWintringham Robert Wyatt "Tankie" is a pejorative term referring to those members...
Brigade, where he became Chief of Operations. Back in England, he helped TomWintringham set up the Osterley Park training centre in 1940 which taught guerilla...
the Jersey family and were used during World War II as the home for TomWintringham's Home Guard training school. They are now National Trust property....
Pollitt, William Rust, R. Page Arnot, Tom Bell, Ernest Cant, Arthur MacManus, J. T. Murphy and TomWintringham. The defendants were charged with "conspiring...
almost every officer, including the battalion commissar and Captain TomWintringham, in gaining and then holding and finally retreating from a position...
(Worcester) author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women George Will (Magdalen) TomWintringham (Balliol) founder Daily Worker (1930) and Left Review (1934) John Woodcock...
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