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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby

1861 - 1936

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Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby is the 354th most popular military personnel (down from 266th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 511th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Military Personnel.

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a British general who led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria during World War I.

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Among military personnels, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 354 out of 2,058. Before him are Dmitry Yazov, John J. Pershing, Italo Balbo, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Wang Jian, and Georg von Frundsberg. After him are Fyodor Tolbukhin, Qasem Soleimani, Luigi Cadorna, Jonas Savimbi, Mark Milley, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli.

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Among people born in 1861, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 25. Before him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, H. H. Holmes, James Naismith, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, and Antoine Bourdelle. After him are Italo Svevo, Maximilian von Spee, Nettie Stevens, William Bateson, Anton Arensky, and István Tisza. Among people deceased in 1936, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 37. Before him are Moritz Schlick, Antoine Meillet, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Georg Michaelis, Anne Sullivan, and Nikolai Ostrovsky. After him are Georgy Chicherin, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Robert E. Howard, Heinrich Rickert, Karl Pearson, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 797 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), Peter Greenaway (1942), Saint Malachy (1094), Anthony James Leggett (1938), and Chris Slade (1946). After him are Malcolm Young (1953), John Surtees (1934), Ramsay MacDonald (1866), Julian Barnes (1946), Annie Lennox (1954), and Michael Powell (1905).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 18. Before him are Captain Tom (1920), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Rudolf Abel (1903), Jack Phillips (1887), Hugh Dowding (1882), and Timothy Laurence (1955). After him are Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Charles Lee (1731), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Harold Bride (1890), and Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861).

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