MILITARY PERSONNEL

George Milne, 1st Baron Milne

1866 - 1948

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Field Marshal George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne, (5 November 1866 – 23 March 1948) was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) from 1926 to 1933. He served in the Second Boer War and during the First World War he served briefly on the Western Front but spent most of the war commanding the British forces on the Macedonian front. As CIGS he generally promoted the mechanisation of British land forces although limited practical progress was made during his term in office. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Milne, 1st Baron Milne is the 1,887th most popular military personnel (down from 1,825th in 2019), the 4,560th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,800th in 2019) and the 111th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne ranks 1,887 out of 2,058. Before him are Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, Charles Q. Brown Jr., Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Rufina Gasheva, Sergey Gritsevets, and Mikhail Yefremov. After him are Elmo Zumwalt, James Stockdale, Augustin Bizimungu, Mikhail Mizintsev, Juan de Salcedo, and Nathan Hale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne ranks 142. Before him are Fred Karno, Harry Davenport, Józef Pankiewicz, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Ndre Mjeda, and Matthew Henson. After him are Gustav de Vries, Ernest Mangnall, Miina Sillanpää, Maud Gonne, Cornelia Sorabji, and Johan Vaaler. Among people deceased in 1948, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne ranks 174. Before him are István Barta, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Thomas Mofolo, René Benjamin, and Joseph Wedderburn. After him are Samuel P. Bush, George Mehnert, Vasily Kachalov, Elissa Landi, Claude McKay, and Amir Sjarifuddin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne ranks 4,561 out of 8,785. Before him are David Jason (1940), Henry Lincoln (1930), A. V. Dicey (1835), Martin Litchfield West (1937), Samantha Morton (1977), and Stephen Leacock (1869). After him are Doug Sampson (1957), Eddie Colman (1936), Jimmy Hogan (1882), John Urry (1946), Peter R. Hunt (1925), and Phoebe Dynevor (1995).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne ranks 111. Before him are Boston Corbett (1832), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Oliver Leese (1894), and Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862). After him are John André (1750), Reginald Wingate (1861), Albert Ball (1896), John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), John Dill (1881), and Guy Simonds (1903).

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