William Montgomery Thomson
Sir William Montgomery Thomson KCMG , CB , MC (* 2. December 1877 ; † 23. July 1963 ) was a British officer, last lieutenant general in the First World War . He succeeded Lionel Dunsterville as commander of the British Expeditionary Forces in Northern Persia and in 1918 consolidated the temporary British control over Baku by troops of the British Indian Army and the oil fields there until the end of the war.
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- ↑ Wolfgang Effenberger: The American Century - Part 2 :, P. 97 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
- ↑ Tadeusz Swietochowski: Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community , p. 141f ( limited preview (English) on Google Book Search ).
- ↑ Jörg Baberowski : The enemy is everywhere: Stalinism in the Caucasus , 2003, p. 149ff ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).
- ↑ Guido Maiwald: Western Powers in the Transcaucasus (1918–1920) , p. 17 ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).
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| SURNAME | Thomson, William Montgomery |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomson, William M .; Thomson, WM |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British officer, last lieutenant general in World War I. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1877 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1963 |