| 词条 | Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson |
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|name=Thomas Wilson |image= |caption= |nickname="Val" |birth_date=20 March 1896[1] |death_date=15 May 1961 (aged 65)[2] |birth_place=Lymington, Hampshire, England |death_place= |placeofburial= |allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}} |branch={{army|United Kingdom}} |serviceyears=1914–1946 |servicenumber=8864 |rank=Major General |unit=King's Royal Rifle Corps Machine Gun Corps |commands=2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Infantry Brigade 9th Infantry Brigade British Army School of Infantry |battles=World War I Anglo Irish War World War II |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath[3] Distinguished Service Order[4] Military Cross[5] Mentioned in despatches (2)[6][7] |relations= |laterwork= }}Major General Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson CB DSO MC (20 March 1896 − 15 May 1961) was a British Army officer who saw service in both World War I and World War II.[8] Military careerEarly life and World War IBorn in Lymington, Hampshire, England, on 20 March 1896, Thomas Wilson was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College. He then went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he received a commission as a second lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) on 11 November 1914, and was given the service number of 8864.[9] He saw service in the First World War on the Western Front, mainly with the 1st Battalion, KRRC,[10] which then formed part of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division. During his service he was promoted to lieutenant on 14 October 1915,[11] and captain on 22 April 1918 (with seniority backdated to 11 February 1917),[12] was wounded in action, awarded the Military Cross in February 1917, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order and mentioned in dispatches, both in 1919.[10][13] Between the warsRemaining in the army during the interwar period, Wilson served in Ireland with the 2nd Battalion, KRRC during the Anglo Irish War.[14] He married in 1922 and attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1928 to 1929. Among his fellow students there included several who would become general officers during the Second World War, such as Gerald Templer, John Harding, Richard McCreery, Gerard Bucknall, Charles Miller, Alexander Galloway, Alexander Cameron, Philip Gregson-Ellis, Charles Murison, Claude Nicholson, William Holmes, I. S. O. Playfair and Gordon MacMillan. After graduating from Camberley Wilson served briefly again with the 2nd Battalion, KRRC before being sent to the War Office, where he served as a General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3) from January 1931 until March 1932.[10] Promoted on 1 January 1932 to the brevet rank of major,[15] and major on 27 July 1932,[16] Wilson served for just under three years, from March 1932 to January 1935, as Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Promoted to the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel on 1 January 1936,[17] he then returned to the War Office, this time serving as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, from February 1936. Relinquishing this post on 18 January 1938, he was made Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), then General Lord Gort. On 1 August 1938 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel[18] and succeeded Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Barker, a fellow KRRC officer and student at the Staff College, as Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, KRRC.[10] The battalion was then serving in England as part of the Mobile Division (later the 1st Armoured Division), then under Major General Roger Evans.[19] Wilson commanded the battalion until the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. Bibliography
References1. ^https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=209&specialcollectionpart_id=167&lot_id=153893 2. ^https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=209&specialcollectionpart_id=167&lot_id=153893 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=37598|page=2758|date=4 June 1946|supp=y}} 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=31370|page=6821|date=30 May 1919}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=29940|page=1544|date=13 February 1917|supp=y}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=35020|page=7175|date=20 December 1940|supp=y}} 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=31442|page=8702|date=8 July 1919|supp=y}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=209&specialcollectionpart_id=167&lot_id=153893|title=Lot 897, 19 March 2008 {{!}} Dix Noonan Webb|website=www.dnw.co.uk|access-date=2018-03-17}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=28969|page=9142|date=10 November 1914}} 10. ^1 2 3 Smart, p. 340 11. ^{{London Gazette|issue=29462|page=1345|date=1 February 1916|supp=y}} 12. ^{{London Gazette|issue=30774|page=7733|date=28 June 1918|supp=y}} 13. ^https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=209&specialcollectionpart_id=167&lot_id=153893 14. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20060104204317/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/060-2.htm 15. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33786|page=49|date=1 January 1932}} 16. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33853|page=5139|date=9 August 1932}} 17. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34239|page=54|date=3 January 1936}} 18. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34540|page=5117|date=9 August 1938}} 19. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20060104204317/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/060-2.htm External links
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