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Jun 22, 2020 · The assassination. On June 22, 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson arrived back, by taxi, at his home on Eaton Square London. The 58 year old had been at the unveiling of a war memorial to the fallen of the Great War at Liverpool Street station. Unknown to him he had been followed home by two Irish veterans of that war, Joe O’Sullivan and ...
At 2.20 p.m. on Thursday, 22 June 1922 Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief security advisor to the new Northern Irish government and former chief of the Imperial General Staff, was shot dead on ...
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Mar 20, 2024 · On June 22, 1922, British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, considered a great hero of World War One who helped bring that battle to an end, unveiled a memorial at Liverpool Street station in London ...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
May 28, 2022 · A sub-plot of this book is the way in which Wilson’s assassination epitomises the very different experiences of first World War veterans. Chapter 3 finds Wilson searching for a role in the post ...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
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. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office, in ...
- 1882–1922
- British Army
May 14, 2022 · The Last Post was sounded by the Grenadier Guards, followed by Reveille and God Save the King. The ceremony over, Wilson repaired to the office of Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, known as Blinker Hall ...
On June 22nd 1922, the British Field Marshall, Henry Wilson was shot dead in London. The assassination sparked a major political crisis in Ireland. The British government blamed the killing on a faction of the IRA opposed to the recent Anglo-Irish Treaty.
