Major General Sir Henry Fleetwood Thuillier, (30 March 1868 – 11 June 1953) was a

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officer who played a significant part in the development of gas warfare.

Early life

Thuillier was born at

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, India, on 30 March 1868, the son of Colonel Sir Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier."Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Thuillier", ''

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'', 13 June 1953, p. 8.

Military career

Thuillier was commissioned into the

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on 23 July 1890. His early career was spent in India. He became commander of 2nd Infantry Brigade in October 1915, General Officer Commanding

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in June 1917, after receiving a temporary promotion to major general, and General Officer Commanding 23rd Division in Italy in 1918, during the

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. After the war Thuillier, promoted in June 1919 to substantive major general, became Commandant of the School of Military Engineering in November 1919,

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at the

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in 1924, and General Officer Commanding

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in June 1927. He retired from the army in March 1930. He died on 11 June 1953.

Selected publications

*''The Principles of Land Defence and Their Application to the Conditions of To-Day''. 1902. *''Gas in the next war''.

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, London, 1939. (German translation published in Zürich by Scientia, 1939, as ''Das gas im nächsten krieg''. Introduction and notes by V. Tempelhoff).

Family

Thuillier's son was Lieutenant Colonel Henry Shakespear Thuillier.

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