Английская Википедия:Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall, Шаблон:Postnominals (22 February 1889 – 18 November 1979) was an officer in the British Army during the First and Second World Wars.
Military career
Wetherall was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1909.[1]Шаблон:Sfn
He served in the First World War in France and Belgium, becoming Commanding Officer of 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1917.[1] In March 1918 he was seriously wounded by a piece of shell in his neck.[2]
After the war he became a lieutenant colonel in the Machine Gun Corps and then a General Staff Officer for Weapon Training in Scottish Command in 1930.[1] He then served in Palestine where he was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in 1936 and then Commander of 19th Brigade in 1938.[1]Шаблон:Sfn
He served in the Second World War as General Officer Commanding 11th African Division in Abyssinia in 1941:[1] he was part of the "Southern Front" for this campaign and commanded the Division during the advance from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland, and into Ethiopia. In late 1941, with the campaign all but over, the 11th African Division was disbanded and he became General Officer Commanding the East Africa Force.[1] He was then appointed Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon in 1943.[1]
After the war he became Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon at a time when the Sri Lankan independence struggle was ongoing; he retired in 1946.[1]
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