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Sir

Webb Gillman

KCB KCMG DSO
Lieutenant Webb Gillman c.1896
Born(1870-10-26)26 October 1870
Galle, Ceylon
Died20 April 1933(1933-04-20) (aged 62)
London, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Years of service1889–1933
RankGeneral
CommandsEastern Command
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
17th Indian Division
Battles / warsSecond Boer War

Anglo-Aro War
First World War

AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches (11)

General Sir Webb Gillman, KCB, KCMG, DSO (26 October 1870 – 20 April 1933) was a British Army general during the First World War.

Personal life

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Webb Gillman was born on 26 October 1870 in Galle, Ceylon, the second son of Herbert Webb Gillman CCS and Annie née Mackwood.[1]

On 8 February 1911 he married Caroline Grace Elizabeth Rube, the daughter of Charles Rube. They had three children: Herbert Charles Rube (1912-1970), who fought in the Second World War, was appointed a MBE and awarded the Croix de Guerre, reaching the rank of Colonel in the Royal Artillery; Catherine Anne Rube (1913-?) and Susan Elizabeth (1915-1961).[2]

Military career

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Educated at Dulwich College, Gillman was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in July 1889.[3]

He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 July 1892, and to captain (supernumerary to the establishment) on 9 October 1899. He served in the Second Boer War 1899–1900, where he took part in the Relief of Kimberley, and the following battles of Paardeberg (late February 1900), Poplar Grove, and Driefontein (March 1900).[4]

In late 1901 he was in Southern Nigeria, where he was attached as a staff officer to the columns taking part in the Aro-Anglo war (November 1901 to March 1902), for which he was mentioned in despatches by the officer in command as an "invaluable officer, cool and full of energy".[5] He was also appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for services during the war.[6] In May 1902 he received a regular appointment as captain of the 119 Battery of the Field Artillery.[7] He later spent time in Southern Nigeria in 1902.[3] In April 1908 he served as an assistant military secretary to Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Paget, who had recently been placed in charge of Eastern Command.[8]

He served in the First World War, being seconded in January 1915 to the 13th (Western) Division as its general staff officer, grade 1 (GSO1).[9] In February 1915 he was made a CMG[10] and in October he was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general and became a brigadier general, Royal Artillery[11] while serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.[3] He was then promoted to temporary major general in June 1916[12] while serving with the British Salonika Army from 1916 to 1917 before becoming commander of the 17th Indian Division in August 1917.[3] He became Chief of General Staff for the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force later on in 1917.[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in January 1917,[13] and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in June 1919.[14]

After the war he became commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1920, Inspector of Artillery at the War Office in 1924 and, after being promoted to lieutenant general in November 1926,[15] Master-General of the Ordnance in 1927.[3] In 1927 he spent three months in Singapore assessing the defence capability of the Naval Base there.[16]

Finally, in March 1931, he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Eastern Command; he died in office in 1933.[3][17] He had been promoted to general in July 1931.[18]

References

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  1. ^ Burke, Bernard; Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1912). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 267.
  2. ^ Gillman, Alexander William (1895). Searches into the history of the Gillman or Gilman family : including the various branches in England, Ireland, America and Belgium. London: Elliot Stock. pp. 89–92.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. ^ Hart´s Army list, 1903
  5. ^ "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. pp. 5879–5886.
  6. ^ "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. p. 5887.
  7. ^ "No. 27444". The London Gazette. 20 June 1902. p. 4051.
  8. ^ "No. 28126". The London Gazette. 7 April 1908. p. 2670.
  9. ^ "No. 29045". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 January 1915. p. 681.
  10. ^ "No. 29074". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 February 1915. p. 1689.
  11. ^ "No. 29360". The London Gazette. 9 November 1915. pp. 11047–11048.
  12. ^ "No. 29958". The London Gazette. 23 February 1917. p. 1883.
  13. ^ "No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1916. p. 2.
  14. ^ "No. 31395". The London Gazette. 6 June 1919. p. 7424.
  15. ^ "No. 33217". The London Gazette. 5 November 1926. p. 7048.
  16. ^ Gillman Village
  17. ^ "No. 33696". The London Gazette. 6 March 1931. p. 1534.
  18. ^ "No. 33732". The London Gazette. 3 July 1931. p. 4341.
Military offices
Preceded by Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich
1920–1924 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Master-General of the Ordnance
1927–1931 		Succeeded by
Preceded by GOC-in-C Eastern Command
1931–1933 		Succeeded by
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