Spears, Edward, Sir, 1886-1974
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- His Liaison, 1914 ... 1930.
- LC data base, 5-23-90(hdg.: Spears, Edward Louis, Sir, bart., 1886-1974; usage: Edward Spears)
- nuc89-52711: His Assignment to catastrophe [MI] 1954(hdg. on MH rept.: Spears, Edward Louis, Sir, bart., 1886-1974; usage: Sir Edward Spears)
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Wikipedia description:
Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. From 1917 to 1920 he was head of the British Military Mission in Paris, ending the war as a Brigadier-General. Between the wars he served as a Member of the British House of Commons, before once again becoming as Anglo-French liaison officer, this time as a Major-General, in the Second World War.
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