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A fact from Timothy Creasey appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,912 times ( disclaimer) ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/September.

Looks like Creasey left Ulster on 8th January 1980 from the Gazette entry [1] Kernel Saunters ( talk) 16:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC) reply

CAIN concurs on 1/12/79, and the Times obituary just says "1979". I'd be tempted to say 1st December and note in a footnote that the Gazette date was different - there may be some subtlety here that'll emerge in time. Shimgray | talk | 12:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC) reply

I suspect CAIN follows the Bew reference just added for this - it's listed as a source. It just seems to be wrong, the Gazette is the definitve reference for Army appointments, so i think we sould go with that. I've checked the Times archive as well - the appointment seems to have been announced in November, but there's no mention of a handover in December, the first mention is their reprint of the gazette info in January 1980. Without seeing this discussion, I'd alreday changed the date in Lawson's article. David Underdown ( talk) 16:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC) reply