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Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, (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 .
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson KCB KCMG (18 February 1859 – 16 November 1941) was a British Army officer who, throughout his long military career which spanned over four decades, served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Second Boer War and the First World War, during which he served with distinction, commanding a brigade and a division on the Western Front and an army ...
Henry Maitland Wilson (1881–1964), British Army general; Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864–1922), British Army general; James Wilson (British Army officer) (1921–2004), British Army lieutenant general; John Wilson (British Army officer, died 1856) (1780–1856), British Army general; Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777) (1777 ...
Mayor of Chicago and former US Congressman, murdered at his home by a disappointed office-seeker: Adolph Luetgert: Chicago: 1897-05-01: German-American businessman convicted of murdering his second wife and dissolving her body in a vat filled with lye at his sausage company: Hampton W. Wall: Staunton: 1898-04-15: Illinois legislator murdered by ...
Everyone could root for Jason Priestley’s virtuous character on Beverly Hills, 90210 — but his daughter, Ava, can’t stop laughing at his fashion choices. “My daughter for a while wanted to ...
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson. Baron Wilson, of Libya and of Stowlangtoft in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created in 1946 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the second Baron, in 2009.
Wilson was killed outright and although Loraine was speedily transported to Bulford Hospital in a horse-drawn ambulance, he died of his injuries only a few minutes after arriving at the hospital. [57] [58] Loraine and Wilson were the first Flying Corps personnel to die in an aircraft crash while on duty. Later in the day an order was issued ...