War Office
Wilson returned to England in 1901, and gained both the substantive promotion to major and the promised brevet in December, and became Commanding Officer of the 9th Provisional Battalion, Rifle Brigade at Colchester in 1902. In 1903 he became an Assistant Adjutant-General. Promotion came in 1907 when he became a substantive colonel at the beginning of the year, and later a temporary brigadier-general commanding the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey. Lancelot Kiggell wrote that he was a “spell-binding” lecturer as Commandant at Camberley. Kitchener clashed with Wilson when he and Robertson visited Staff College in July 1910.
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