Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970) by Howard Coster, 1939 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hart, Sir Basil Henry Liddell (1895–1970), military thinker and historian, was born on 31 October 1895 at 4 rue Rosquépine, near the place St Augustin, in Paris (8th arrondissement). He was the younger son of Revd Henry Bramley Hart (1860–1937), the Wesleyan Methodist minister in ...
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Donald F. Bittner
Moulton, James Louis (1906–1993), marine officer and military historian, was born on 3 June 1906 at The Terrace, His Majesty's Dockyard, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, the son of John Davis Moulton (d. 1921), staff captain in the Royal Navy (also JP for Kingston, Jamaica...
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Charles À Court Repington (1858–1925) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Repington, Charles À Court (1858–1925), army officer and military writer, was born on 29 January 1858, at 15 Chesham Street, London. He was the son of Charles Henry Wyndham À Court Repington (1819–1903), a staunch Anglican and Peelite, MP for Wilton, 1852–5, and of ...
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A. J. A. Morris
Wilkinson, (Henry) Spenser (1853–1937), military historian, was born on 1 May 1853 at 9 Wilberforce Terrace, Preston Street, Hulme, the second son of Thomas Read Wilkinson, a banker, and his wife, Emma Wolfenden. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and (from 1873 to 1877/8) ...
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Roger T. Stearn
Wingate, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie, second baronet (1889–1978), imperial administrator and wartime deception planner, was born on 30 September 1889 at 18 Campden Grove, Kensington, London, the elder surviving son of Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, first baronet (1861–1953), army officer and colonial governor, and his wife, ...
