About: Robert Hugh Willan

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Brigadier Robert Hugh Willan, DSO, MC (6 September 1882 – 4 May 1960) was an officer in the British Army. Willan was a lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry when he received a commission as second lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps on 7 May 1902. He served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and the Military Cross (MC). He was Commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 1934–38 and concurrently Aide-de-camp to Kings George V, Edward VIII and George VI. He died in 1960 and his funeral was held in Salisbury.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Brigadier Robert Hugh Willan, DSO, MC (6 September 1882 – 4 May 1960) was an officer in the British Army. Willan was a lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry when he received a commission as second lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps on 7 May 1902. He served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and the Military Cross (MC). He was Commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 1934–38 and concurrently Aide-de-camp to Kings George V, Edward VIII and George VI. He married Violet Crabbe, daughter of Brigadier General Eyre Crabbe. They had two sons: Martin Stuart Willan was killed in action during the fall of France in 1940; the other was (Frank) Andrew Willan, RAF officer and Tory local politician. He died in 1960 and his funeral was held in Salisbury. (en)
dbo:allegiance
  • United Kingdom
dbo:award
dbo:battle
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:militaryCommand
  • 10th Infantry Brigade(1934–38)
  • 1st Divisional Signals (1925–29)
dbo:relation
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1902-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 42210643 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2912 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1083149591 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
dbp:awards
dbp:battles
dbp:birthDate
  • 1882-09-06 (xsd:date)
dbp:branch
dbp:commands
  • 1 (xsd:integer)
  • 10 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1960-05-04 (xsd:date)
dbp:name
  • Robert Hugh Willan (en)
dbp:rank
dbp:relations
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1902 (xsd:integer)
  • 1939 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Brigadier Robert Hugh Willan, DSO, MC (6 September 1882 – 4 May 1960) was an officer in the British Army. Willan was a lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry when he received a commission as second lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps on 7 May 1902. He served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and the Military Cross (MC). He was Commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 1934–38 and concurrently Aide-de-camp to Kings George V, Edward VIII and George VI. He died in 1960 and his funeral was held in Salisbury. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Robert Hugh Willan (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Robert Hugh Willan (en)
is dbo:relation of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:relations of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License