King–Byng affair
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The King–Byng affair, also known as the King–Byng Wing Ding, was a Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred in 1926, when the Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by th
Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation.
King–Byng affair
…King–Byng affair, also known as the King–Byng Wing Ding, was a Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred in 1926, when the Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to dissolve parliament and call a general election. The 1925 Canadian federal…
Portrait of Byng by Philip Alexius de Laszlo as GOC 1st Cavalry Brigade, 1907.
The Prince of Wales, the Earl of Athlone, General Byng and King George V with a German helmet on Thiepval Ridge, July 1917.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (centre front) with his senior commanders and staff officers at Cambrai, France, November 1918. Stood in the second row, directly behind Haig, is General Byng, GOC Third Army.