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Generals' Nicknames
No99: 'Tim' Harington
Major-General Sir Charles Harington Harington
(1872-1940) was one of the British Army’s leading staff officers, serving as
BGGS Canadian Corps (1915-16), MGGS Second Army (1916-17, 1918) and MGGS British
Forces in Italy (1917-18) before returning home to become Deputy Chief of the
Imperial General Staff (1918-20). He was the author of Plumer of Messines
(1935) and Tim Harington Looks Back (1940). After being commissioned
Harington was en route to join his regiment in India when news reached the ship
of the conviction of a criminal called ‘Tim Harrington’. Wags immediately
started calling Harington ‘Tim’ and the name stuck. This was ironic because
his family’s name was actually ‘Poë’. ‘Harington’ was the name of his
mother’s family. His father adopted this in the 1890s, thus lumbering his son
with two ‘Haringtons’ in his name.
John Bourne
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