MILITARY PERSONNEL

Henry Maitland Wilson

1881 - 1964

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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. During the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British Troops in Egypt, in which role he launched Operation Compass, attacking Italian forces with considerable success, in December 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Maitland Wilson has received more than 218,126 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Henry Maitland Wilson is the 1,528th most popular military personnel (down from 1,376th in 2019), the 2,584th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,785th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henry Maitland Wilson ranks 1,528 out of 2,058. Before her are Johann von Werth, Dmitry Milyutin, Braxton Bragg, Józef Chłopicki, Murat Karayılan, and Douglas Bader. After her are Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Herman Kahn, Henri Saint Cyr, Nina Lobkovskaya, Adolphe Niel, and Pedro Teixeira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Henry Maitland Wilson ranks 131. Before her are Rudolf Ramek, Daniel Jones, Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ludwik Rajchman, Gaston Gallimard, and Max Weber. After her are Ludwig Kaas, August Hlond, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Alexander Kanoldt, Ernst Fast, and Max Gerson. Among people deceased in 1964, Henry Maitland Wilson ranks 106. Before her are Ary Barroso, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Joseph Schildkraut, Aloïse Corbaz, Alvin York, and Rudolph Maté. After her are Olga Desmond, Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Marx, Maksym Rylsky, Adolfo Díaz, and Brendan Behan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Maitland Wilson ranks 2,584 out of 8,785. Before her are Paul Bernays (1888), Paul Nurse (1949), Jon Finch (1942), Jack Greenwell (1884), Morris Travers (1872), and Douglas Bader (1910). After her are Gayatri Devi (1919), Ian McDonald (1946), Bob Anderson (1922), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), James Whale (1889), and Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Henry Maitland Wilson ranks 67. Before her are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Sidney Smith (1764), John Alcock (1892), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), Patrick Gordon (1635), and Douglas Bader (1910). After her are Thomas Gage (1719), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Somerville (1882), Charles Warren (1840), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), and Christopher Cradock (1862).

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