Henry Fleetwood Thuillier

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Sir Henry Fleetwood Thuillier KCB , CMG (* thirtieth March 1868 in Meerut , British India ; † 11. June 1953 ) was a British officer, last Major-General , who in World War I as a director of gas services of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF) and served as division commander.

Life

Thuillier was born as the son of Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier , a future colonel and, like before him, his father Henry Edward Landor Thuillier as Surveyor General of India , and trained at Wimbledon College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich . In 1887 he joined the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieutenant and was promoted to Lieutenant three years later . In 1895 Thuillier served in the Chitral expedition in Waziristan and in 1898 was promoted to captain . In 1902 his work The Principles of Land Defense and Their Application to the Conditions of To-Day appeared , in which he dealt with the Second Boer War , among other things .

During the First World War he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the BEF from October 1915 to March 1916 . He was then appointed Director of Gas Services . As such, he oversaw both offensive and defensive chemical warfare. His subordinate Charles Howard Foulkes , responsible for the offensive use of gas, was notoriously stubborn and often disregarded Thuillier's instructions. He followed him later. His other direct subordinate was Stevenson Lyle Cummins of the Royal Army Medical Corps , who was responsible for gas protection and control.

In June 1917, Thuillier took command of the 15th (Scottish) Division , which was involved in the Third Battle of Flanders at that time . In October 1917 he was recalled to take up a position as Controller of Chemical Warfare in the Ministry of Munitions . He was also chairman of the Chemical Warfare Committee from 1917 to 1918 . After the war he was temporarily General Officer Commanding , Taranto in Taranto , the embarkation port of the British West Indies Regiment , which mutinied at the time.

In the interwar period , Thuillier was General Officer Commanding the Thames and Medway Area , Director of Fortification and Works in the War Office from 1920 to 1923 , and Commander of the 52nd (Lowland) Division from 1927 to 1930 , before retiring in Cheltenham . He worked, among other things, as local chairman of the British Legion veterans' association and was Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 1936 , later also Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers. He gave a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute in 1936 entitled Can Methods of Warfare Be Restricted? In 1938 his work Gas in the Next War was published , which was also translated into German.

Familiar

Thuillier married Helen Shakespear in 1894, daughter of Major General SR Shakespear. Thuillier's eldest son, Henry Shakespear, was like his father an officer and also worked as a writer. His second son, George Fleetwood , fell as a captain on the Western Front in March 1918.

See also

literature

  • The Royal Engineers Journal , Volume 68, 1954, pp. 92 ff., Ed. from the Institution of Royal Engineers.
  • John Bourne: Who's Who in World War I. Routledge, 2002.
  • Obituary, The Times, June 13, 1953.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Full text on archive.org
  2. ^ Glenford D. Howe: Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War. Ian Randle, 2002, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Dt. Edition: The gas in the next war. - Zurich: Scientia; Berlin: Nauck 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Thuillier, Henry Fleetwood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Major General, Director of Gas Services in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerut , British India
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1953