| 词条 | Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram |
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Wigram | honorific_suffix = MC DL | birth_name = George Neville Clive Wigram | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1915|8|2}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|05|23|1915|8|2}} | alma_mater = Magdalen College, Oxford | title = Baron Wigram | term = 1960–2017 | predecessor = Clive Wigram | spouse = Margaret Helen Thorne (1941–86) | children = Andrew Francis Clive Wigram Margaret Cherry Wigram Anne Celia Wigram | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army | serviceyears = 1934–57 | rank = Lieutenant Colonel | servicenumber = 66919 | unit = Grenadier Guards | battles = Second World War
| awards = Military Cross }} }} George Neville Clive Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram, MC, DL (2 August 1915 – 23 May 2017) was a British Army officer. He held the title of Baron Wigram of Clewer, Berkshire, from 1960 when his father Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram died. His son, Major Andrew Francis Clive Wigram, 3rd Baron (born 1949), succeeded to the title on his death. He was a Member of the House of Lords before his exclusion in 1999, due to the House of Lords Act 1999 which excluded most members who inherited their seats. He sat as a Conservative. Early lifeWigram was born on 2 August 1915[1][2] He was godson and a Page of Honour of George V. He resigned from the post in 1932.[3] He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.[4] He was an Officer Cadet in the University's Officers Training Corps. He took a commission within the infantry contingent of the Oxford OTC on 7 February 1936, and became a Second Lieutenant with seniority from 7 August 1934.[5] Military careerWigram transferred from the Territorial Army, which he joined when he took a commission in the OTC, to the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant on 28 August 1937. He was given seniority from 30 January 1936.[6] During the Second World War, Wigram was involved in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. He was shot in the back, but was not aware of it at the time. He only found out later when he opened his backpack to find a bullet embedded in his soap-dish.[7] During a presentation he gave to a group of special needs school children at Coln House School, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Wigram described his experience at Dunkirk:{{quote|There was absolute chaos on the beach and a lot of the destroyers had been sunk. While we were there we were shot at from the Germans airplanes but it was amazing how few casualties there were.[7]}} Wigram was promoted to captain on 30 January 1944,[8] and returned to France during the Normandy landings that year. He then advanced through Europe with the Grenadier Guards.[7] In April 1945, he was involved with the liberation of a concentration camp near Bremen, Germany. During the same presentation mentioned earlier, he described what they found at the camp:{{quote|This was a very small camp and it was occupied with prisoners of war and civilians. The civilians were mostly Frenchmen who had been deported from France and they were dying of typhus.[7]}} On 10 July 1945, (temporary) Major Wigram, Grenadier Guards,[9] was gazetted as having been awarded the Military Cross "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe".[9] Wigram remained in the army after the war, receiving promotions to major on 30 January 1949,[10] and to lieutenant colonel on 9 May 1955.[11] He retired from the British Army on 26 June 1957 as a lieutenant colonel on account of a disability.[12] Later lifeUpon the death of his father in 1960 Wigram became the second Baron Wigram, of Clewer in the County of Berkshire. On 8 October 1969 Wigram was announced as one of five Deputy Lieutenants commissioned that year by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester.[13][14] He turned 100 in August 2015.[15] DeathWigram died on 23 May 2017 at the age of 101.[16] At the time of his death he was the longest lived person to have sat in the House of Lords.[17] Personal lifeIn 1941, Wigram married Margaret Helen Thorne (1917–1986), daughter of General Sir Andrew Thorne. Together they had three children:
Wigram had nine grandchildren.[18] Styles
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