ويلفريد ماليسون
الميجور جنرال السير ويلفريد ماليسون Wilfrid Malleson KCIE CB (8 سبتمبر 1866 – 24 يناير 1946) كان ميجور جنرال في الجيش الهندي البريطاني والذي قاد مهمة إلى تركستان أثناء الحرب الأهلية الروسية.
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الحياة
Malleson born in Baldersby, Yorkshire. was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1886. In 1904 he transferred to the Indian Army and accompanied Sir Louis Dane في مهمته إلى كابول، أفغانستان، 1904–1905. He was posted to British East Africa, where he was appointed Inspector General of Communications. He participated in the Battle of Salaita and the Battle of Latema Nek. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in August 1916.[1] He then led the British Military Mission to Turkestan between 16 July 1918 – 5 April 1919, aiming to block possible German-Turkish thrusts towards India and Afghanistan.[2] In August 1918, he dispatched a British Indian Army force consisting of a machine gun detachment comprising 40 Punjabi troops and a British officer to resist the Bolsheviks near Meru in what was the first direct confrontation between British and Russian troops since the Crimea War.[3] He led the Malleson Mission an effort to curtail German and Turkish influence in the area, and to assist the Transcaspian Government against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Malleson was forced to withdraw in April 1919 however.[2] Later he participated in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. He was involved in military intelligence, running a spy network from Meshed in north-eastern Iran against the Russians during this period. For his services, Malleson was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) on 1 January 1920.[4] He retired from the Indian Army on 30 October 1920.[5]
جوانب شخصية
In 1894, he married Ida Kathleen King, daughter of Frederick St Aubyn King.[6] Their son Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson was awarded the Victoria Cross. وقد توفي في نيوتن أبوت في 1946.
انظر أيضاً
الهامش
- ^ London Gazette 18 August 1916.
- ^ أ ب Cain 1996, p. 93.
- ^ On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk, John Murray, 1994.
- ^ "No. 32001". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 July 1920. p. 8050.
- ^ Indian Army List supplement January 1924.
- ^ India, Select Marriages, 1792–1948.
المراجع
- Milton, Giles Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot, Sceptre, 2013. ISBN 978 1 444 73702 8.
- Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan, by Rafis Abazov, Scarecrow Press, 2005.
- Cain, Frank (1996). Charles Howard (Dick) (1895–1975), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. p. 93.
- On Secret Service East of Constantinople, by Peter Hopkirk, John Murray 1994, p. 340.
- CS1: Julian–Gregorian uncertainty
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- مواليد 1866
- وفيات 1946
- 19th-century British Army personnel
- Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
- Royal Artillery officers
- Indian Army generals of World War I
- British military personnel of the Russian Civil War
- British Indian Army generals
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
- British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Afghan War
- People from the Borough of Harrogate
- Military personnel from North Yorkshire
- British people in colonial India