292:(a friend of Mary Garstin's late father, who had been asked by her family to get involved) on 9 October 1899. Repington told Wilson – at Chieveley, near Colenso in South Africa, during the 2nd Boer War campaign in February 1901 – that he regarded himself as absolved from his promise to give Mary Garstin up after learning that her husband had been spreading rumours of his other infidelities. During the divorce proceedings, it was revealed that Repington had ignored warnings about his behaviour (i.e. had "broken his parole") and had continued with the affair. Wilson was unable or unwilling to confirm Repington's claim that he had released him from his parole in South Africa. Repington believed that Wilson had betrayed a fellow soldier in this, but was forced to resign his commission and retire from the British Army in social disgrace with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 15 January 1902. In a subsequent career as a journalist, specializing in military matters, he was a strong critic of Wilson whenever the opportunity presented itself.
440:. Such blatant meddling in politics also damaged the authority of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the B.E.F. and contributed to his enforced resignation from the post at the end of 1915. The affair had given Repington substantial influence over military policy via his newspaper reports, but he was personally temporarily prohibited from visiting the Western Front again until March 1916.
593:. The marriage produced four children: Charles Edward Geoffrey (1888-1889), (Melloney) Catherine ("Kitty") Isabel (1891–1965), Elizabeth Frances (1892-1950), and Violet Emily (1895-1898); they were judicially separated in 1902. Repington subsequently married Mary North (formerly Lady Garstin), and had a daughter, Laetitia Frances Mary, born in 1911.
288:, which became public. He was reprimanded by senior military authorities, as he had given a written promise "upon his honour as a soldier and gentleman" previously to have no further dealings with her. He had given this "parole" to
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assured him of French's tacit approval. Repington later emphatically denied that French had spoken to him on the issue, but French had in fact supplied
Repington with information for the story. The appearance of this story in
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before a declaration of hostilities), and was a "Westerner" (i.e., supported during the war the defeat of the German Empire by heavy fighting on the
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Wiltshire folk, and in old days represented
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rather than pursuing an alternative indirect strategy). According to his memoir
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456:, who after the German counterattack at the
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517:Repington was also a casualty of the
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1041:. London: Penguin. pp. 489–512.
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876:The First World War 1914–1918, Vol.1
521:. On 12 May a two-page editorial in
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1083:Burials in East Sussex
316:from the scene of the
296:Military correspondent
1008:Reid, Walter (2006).
713:"The First World War"
427:Ministry of Munitions
86:Years of service
956:Victor Bonham-Carter
617:, London, J. Murray.
591:Henry Jenner Scobell
484:Howell Arthur Gwynne
247:Horace Smith-Dorrien
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887:Holmes 2004, p. 287
854:First World War.com
745:. Houghton Mifflin.
551:The First World War
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717:Quite Interesting
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678:14 December
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353:World War I
223:Afghanistan
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1067:Categories
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539:Later life
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504:Versailles
418:Daily Mail
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