Robert Whigham

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Early life

Whigham was born on 5 August 1865, the son of David Dundas Whigham and Ellen Murray (née Campbell).[1] His father was a lawyer and a cricket player.[2] His sister was Sybil Whigham who was a successful tennis player;[1] another brother was the golfer and journalist H. J. Whigham.[3] Their sister Molly Whigham also played golf.[4]

Military career

Educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Whigham was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a lieutenant on 9 May 1885, where the future field marshal, William Birdwood, was a fellow student.[5][6]

In January 1892 he was appointed an adjutant[7] and was promoted to captain in March.[8] He was seconded for service with to the Egyptian Army in December 1897,[9] where he served in the Nile Expedition of 1898 with the 12th Sudanese Battalion.[5]

During the Second Boer War he served from 1899 as aide-de-camp to Major-General Hector MacDonald, in command of the Highland Brigade, and was promoted to major on augmentation in August 1900.[10] He was later at army headquarters in South Africa, and for his service was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the South Africa Honours list published on 26 June 1902.[11][5]

Following the end of the war, he returned to the United Kingdom in August 1902,[12] and then became brigade major for the 10th Brigade, 5th Division, then part of the 2nd Army Corps, on 1 November 1902.[13] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1908.[14] After relinquishing his assignment as a deputy assistant adjutant general at the War Office, he then succeeded Colonel Edward Perceval as a general staff officer, grade 2 at the Staff College, Camberley.[15]

He was promoted to colonel in October 1911[16] and in April 1912 became a GSO1 at the War Office.[17]

Whigham served in the First World War, initially with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.[5] In September he took over the position of the 2nd Division's GSO1 from Colonel The Hon. Frederick Gordon.[18] On 27 December he was promoted to temporary rank of brigadier general and became brigadier general, general staff of I Corps.[19] which he relinquished in July 1915 when he took up the position of sub-chief of the general staff at the general headquarters of the BEF from Major General Edward Perceval, and for which he remained a temporary brigadier while also being a substantive colonel.[20] Promoted to temporary major general in September,[21] he was appointed deputy chief of the imperial general staff (DCIGS) at the War Office in December 1915, taking over from Launcelot Kiggell.[5][22] Promoted to the substantive rank of major general in January 1916,[23] he became general officer commanding (GOC) 59th (2nd North Midland) Division in June 1918 and GOC 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division in August.[5][24][25]

After the war Whigham became GOC of the Light Division in the British Army of the Rhine.[5] He was appointed GOC 3rd Division in 1919,[26] promoted to lieutenant general in August 1921[27] was Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1923,[28] and was appointed colonel of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in succession to Lieutenant General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, in June 1925.[29] He then served as GOC-in-Chief for Eastern Command in March 1927.[30][31] He was promoted to general in January 1928.[32]

He was appointed aide-de-camp general to King George V in August 1930, in succession to General Sir John Asser,[33] and relinquished Eastern Command in March 1931,[34] the same month he retired from the army.[35][36]

Family

In 1899 Whigham married Isabel Adeline Muntz.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ a b "Death of Capt. Nicholson, R. N. at Sidmouth" Western Times (12 February 1932).
  2. ↑ "England/Players/David Whigham" ESPNcricinfo.
  3. ↑ "Success of Younger Element in Women's Golf Championship" Outing (October 1900): 97.
  4. ↑ "Golf: The Ladies' Championship" Leeds Mercury (May 17, 1900): 6. via Newspapers.comTemplate:Open access
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Anglo Boer War
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  24. ↑ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, Template:ISBN, pp. 17, 41
  25. ↑ Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 4: The Army Council, GHQs, Armies, and Corps 1914–1918, London: HM Stationery Office, 1944/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, Template:ISBN, p. 2.
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  30. ↑ Flight Global 18 August 1927
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  35. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1931
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