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Full list. Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and ...
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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby. Viscount Allenby, of...
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May 10, 2024 · Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (born April 23, 1861, Brackenhurst, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died May 14, 1936, London) was a field marshal, the last great British leader of mounted cavalry, who directed the Palestine campaign in World War I.
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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby. Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his younger brother Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and his heirs ...
Edmund Allenby (1861-1936) was commissioned into the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons in 1881. He served in South Africa before returning to Britain to attend Staff College. By 1898 he was a brigade-major with the 3rd Cavalry Brigade. During the Boer War (1899-1902) he served with General French’s Cavalry Division, earning himself a reputation as ...
The ashes of Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, were buried in the Warriors Chapel (now St George's chapel) in Westminster Abbey on 19th May 1936. The inscription on the small gravestone reads simply: ALLENBY Field Marshal 1861-1936. He was born on 23rd April 1861 in Nottinghamshire, a son of Hynman Allenby and his ...
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Mar 24, 2020 · Allenby, Edmund / Hughes, Matthew (ed.): Allenby in Palestine. The Middle East correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, June 1917-October 1919, Stroud 2004: Sutton; Fantauzzo, Justin: Dead Sea fruit. Edmund Allenby, the First World War and the politics of personal loss, in: First World War Studies 7/3, 2016, pp. 287-302.
Introduction. General Sir Edmund Allenby (later, Field Marshal and Viscount, 1861–1936) served in South Africa and Bechuanaland (Botswana), passed Staff College, fought in the Boer War (1899–1902), became Inspector General of Cavalry, and then assumed command of the Cavalry Division on the outbreak of the First World War.
