Percival Spearman Wilkinson

Major-General Sir Percival Spearman Wilkinson KCMG, CB (5 July 1865 – 4 November 1953) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Military career
Wilkinson was commissioned into the 5th Regiment of Foot on 10 November 1883. He became Inspector General of the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1909. Promoted to major-general on 8 August 1912, he served as Commander of the 1st Secunderabad Infantry Brigade, part of the 9th (Secunderabad) Division, on internal security duties in India and then, from August 1915, as General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division during the First World War. He became colonel of the Northumberland Fusiliers in January 1915 before he retired on 4 July 1923. In retirement he was Chief Commissioner of St. John Ambulance.