William Hacket Pain Military person
Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain KBE CB (5 February 1855 – 14 February 1924) was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running. At the outbreak of the First World War he served in command of a Brigade of the Ulster Division and commanding British forces in the north of Ireland. He served briefly as a Unionist Member of Parliament.
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| allegiance | United Kingdom Ulster |
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| military command | 108th Infantry Brigade; Northern district of Ireland |
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| service start | 1875 |
| service end | 1875 |