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Encyclopedia > British Joint Staff Mission

The British Joint Staff Mission was a body constitued in Washington during World War II to represent British interests on the Combined Chiefs of Staff when the British Chiefs of Staff Committee could not attend meetings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Staff Mission was a triservice organisation and included Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Admiral Sir James Somerville amongst its members during the war.


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Henry Maitland Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (292 words)
In 1939 he became commander of the British forces in Egypt, and in 1941 he led the ill-fated Commonwealth expedition to Greece.
He succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean in 1944 and held that post until December of that year, when he replaced Field Marshal Sir John Dill as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington: he was succeeded in the Mediterranean by Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander.
Wilson was made a Field Marshal on 29 December 1944 and continued to serve as head of the British Joint Staff Mission until 1947.
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