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|birth_place= [[Meerut]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Sir Henry Fleetwood Thuillier''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KCB|CMG}} (30 March 1868 – 11 June 1953) was a [[British Army]] officer who played a significant part in the development of [[gas warfare]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Thuillier was born at [[Meerut]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India, on 30 March 1868, the son of Colonel [[Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier|Sir Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier]].<ref name=Times>"Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Thuillier", ''[[The Times]]'', 13 June 1953, p. 8.</ref><br />
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==Military career==<br />
Thuillier was commissioned into the [[Royal Engineers]] on 23 July 1890.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26073|page=4102|date=25 July 1890}}</ref> His early career was spent in India.<ref name=Times/> He became commander of [[2nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|2nd Infantry Brigade]] in October 1915, General Officer Commanding [[15th (Scottish) Infantry Division|15th Division]] in June 1917 and General Officer Commanding [[23rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|23rd Division]] in Italy in 1918, during the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVwMJlhJXbMC&pg=PA135|title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers|first=Robert|last=Hill|page=135|volume=11|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0822346906}}</ref><br />
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After the war Thuillier became Commandant of the [[Royal School of Military Engineering|School of Military Engineering]] in November 1919, [[Chief Royal Engineer#Directors of Fortifications and Works, 1904–1936|Director of Fortifications and Works]] at the [[War Office]] in 1924,<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 32926 |page=3009 | date = 11 April 1924 }}</ref> and General Officer Commanding [[52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division]] in June 1927. He retired from the army in March 1930.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf|title=Army Commands|accessdate=22 June 2020}}</ref> He died on 11 June 1953.<ref name=Times/><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*''The Principles of Land Defence and Their Application to the Conditions of To-Day''. 1902.<br />
*''Gas in the next war''. [[Geoffrey Bles]], London, 1939. (German translation published in Zürich by Scientia, 1939, as ''Das gas im nächsten krieg''. Introduction and notes by V. Tempelhoff).<br />
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==Family==<br />
Thuillier's son was Lieutenant Colonel [[Henry Shakespear Thuillier]].<ref name="Bosher">{{cite book|author=Bosher, J. F.|title=Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMmZhkMzy-IC&pg=PA727|year=2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4500-5962-6|page=727}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Leslie de Malapert Thuillier]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F65013 Correspondence at the National Archives]<br />
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