Henry Fleetwood Thuillier

Major-General Sir Henry Fleetwood Thuillier KCB CMG, (30 March 1868 – 11 June 1953) was a British Army officer who played a significant part in the development of gas warfare.

Sir Henry Fleetwood Thuillier
Henry Fleetwood Thuillier by Walter Stoneman, 1919.
Born30 March 1868
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Died11 June 1953
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Indian Army
Years of service1887–1920
RankMajor-General
Commands held2nd Infantry Brigade
15th Division
23rd Division
School of Military Engineering
52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
Battles/warsFirst World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Early life

Thuillier was born at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 30 March 1868, the son of Colonel Sir Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, KCIE.[1]

Military career

Thuillier was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 23 July 1890.[2] His early career was spent in India.[1] He became commander of 2nd Infantry Brigade in October 1915, General Officer Commanding 15th Division in June 2017 and General Officer Commanding 23rd Division in Italy in 1918 during the First World War.[3]

After the war he became Commandant of the School of Military Engineering in November 1919, Director of Fortifications and Works at the War Office in 1924[4] and General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in June 1927 before retiring in March 1930.[5] He died on 11 June 1953.[1]

Selected publications
  • The Principles of Land Defence and Their Application to the Conditions of To-Day. 1902.
  • Gas in the next war. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1939. (German translation published in Zürich by Scientia, 1939, as Das gas im nächsten krieg. Introduction and notes by V. Tempelhoff).

Family

His son was Lt. Col. Henry Shakespear Thuillier (1895-1982).[6]

See also

References
  1. "Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Thuillier", The Times, 13 June 1953, p. 8.
  2. "No. 26073". The London Gazette. 25 July 1890. p. 4102.
  3. Hill, Robert (2011). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. 11. Duke University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0822346906.
  4. "No. 32926". The London Gazette. 11 April 1924. p. 3009.
  5. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. Bosher, J. F. (2010). Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950. Xlibris Corporation. p. 727. ISBN 978-1-4500-5962-6.
Military offices
Preceded by
Hamilton Reed		 GOC 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
1927–1930		 Succeeded by
Sir Walter Constable-Maxwell-Scott


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