Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscoont Allenby
Appearance
The Viscount Allenby | |
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Field Marshal Viscoont Allenby | |
Elk-name | Bluidy Bull |
Born | 23 Apryle 1861 Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire, Ingland |
Dee'd | 14 Mey 1936 Lunnon, Ingland | (aged 75)
Allegiance | |
Service/branch | |
Years o service | 1880–1925 |
Rank | Field Marshal |
Commands held | |
Battles/wars | Seicont Boer War First Warld War
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Awairds | Knicht Grand Cross o the Order o the Bath Knicht Grand Cross o the Order o St Michael an St George Knicht Grand Cross o the Ryal Victorian Order |
Ither wirk | Heich Commissioner for Egyp an the Sudan (1919–25) |
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 Aprile 1861 – 14 Mey 1936) wis an Inglis soldier an Breetish Imperial Govrenor. He focht in the Seicont Boer War an an aa in Warld War I, in which he led the Breetish Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai an Palestine Campaign in the conquest o Palestine capturin Beersheba, Jaffa, an Jerusalem frae October tae December 1917.
Categeries:
- 1861 births
- 1936 daiths
- Breetish Airmy personnel o the Seicont Boer War
- Breetish field marshals
- Heich Commissioners o the Unitit Kinrick tae Egyp
- Breetish Life Guards officers
- History o Jerusalem
- Viscoonts in the Peerage o the Unitit Kinrick
- History o Mandatory Palestine
- History o Israel
- Knichts o Juistice o the Order o St John
- Knichts Grand Cross o the Order o the Bath
- Knichts Grand Cross o the Order o St Michael an St George
- Knichts Grand Cross o the Ryal Victorian Order
- Recipients o the Order o the Risin Sun
- Graduates o the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Fowk eddicatit at Haileybury an Imperial Service College
- Fowk frae Nottinghamshire
- Rectors o the Varsity o Edinburgh
- Caiptains o Deal Castle
- Breetish militar personnel o the Bechuanaland Expedeetion
- Recipients o the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (Fraunce)
- Breetish Airmy cavalry generals o Warld War I