Major General Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, CB, DSO, MC (20 March 1896 − 15 May 1961) was a British Army officer who saw service in both the First and Second World Wars.
[7][8] Born in Lymington, Hampshire, England, on 20 March 1896, Thomas Wilson was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College.
He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.Remaining in the army during the interwar period, Wilson served in Ireland with the 2nd Battalion, KRRC during the Anglo Irish War.
Among his fellow students there included several who would become general officers during the Second World War, such as Gerald Templer, John Harding, Richard McCreery, Gerard Bucknall, Charles Miller, Alexander Galloway, Alexander Cameron, Philip Gregson-Ellis, Charles Murison, Claude Nicholson, William Holmes, I. S. O. Playfair and Gordon MacMillan.
Promoted to the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1936,[15] he then returned to the War Office, this time serving as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, from February 1936.