John Wilsey
Sir John Wilsey | |
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| Nickname(s) | Gregory Peck Mentioned in Despatches |
| Relations | John Harold Owen Wilsey (father) |
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DL (18 February 1939 – 25 September 2019) was a British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces
.
Army career
Educated at
UK Land Forces from 1988 to 1989,[2] and made Colonel Commandant of the Army Catering Corps in 1990.[3] He was also given the colonelcy of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1990, holding the position until 1998.[4]
Wilsey went on to become
Aide de Camp General to the Queen.[6]
Wilsey served as the last
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1996 New Year Honours.[7]
Later career
Wilsey was the author of H. Jones VC: The Life and Death of an Unusual Hero, a book about his friend Lieutenant Colonel
Having settled in southern
Deputy Lieutenant of the county.[10]
He died on 25 September 2019 at the age of 80.[11][12]
References
- ^ "Wilsey, John Finlay Willasey (g 57)". The Old Shirburnian Society. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Debrett's People of Today 1994
- ^ "No. 52382". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1990. p. 2.
- ^ "Devonshire and Dorset Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 25 February 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "No. 53271". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 April 1993. p. 6486.
- ^ "No. 53710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 June 1994. p. 8914.
- ^ "No. 54255". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1995. p. 2.
- ^ Biography at Random House books Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- , retrieved 22 March 2024
- ^ London Gazette, 22 July 1996, page 9843 Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wiltshire on 12 July 1996)
- ^ "General Sir John Wilsey obituary". The Times. 30 September 2019. (registration required)
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
Further reading
- Wilsey, John, H.Jones VC: The Life and Death of an Unusual Hero, Arrow Books, 2003 ISBN 978-0-09-943669-0
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