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William Birdwood

1865 - 1951

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Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951), was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. He saw action again in the First World War as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Birdwood is the 1,655th most popular military personnel (up from 1,809th in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from India (up from 634th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Birdwood ranks 1,655 out of 2,058. Before him are Josip Filipović, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Alexander Svechin, John Troglita, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet. After him are Ahmad Vahidi, Rudolf von Bünau, Sefer Halilović, Berenguer de Palou II, Carlos Hathcock, and John Kourkouas.

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Among people born in 1865, William Birdwood ranks 127. Before him are Henri Lebasque, Gustaf Söderström, May Whitty, Robert Henri, Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, and Sakina Akhundzadeh. After him are Pierre Weiss, Charles Champaud, Mikhail Tskhakaya, Louis Borno, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, and Johannes Thiele. Among people deceased in 1951, William Birdwood ranks 124. Before him are Gustave Sandras, J. C. Leyendecker, Leopold Andrian, Carl Albert Andersen, Haj Ali Razmara, and Will Keith Kellogg. After him are Zoltán Mechlovits, Pamela Colman Smith, Katarzyna Kobro, Pauline Pfeiffer, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, and Kim Myeong-sun.

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In India

Among people born in India, William Birdwood ranks 567 out of 1,861. Before him are Shiva Rajkumar (1961), Shammi Kapoor (1931), M. F. Husain (1915), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Hemu (1501). After him are Sidharth Malhotra (1985), Malik Kafur (1250), Arjun Appadurai (1949), B. V. Doshi (1927), Manorama (1937), and Zinat-un-Nissa Begum (1643).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, William Birdwood ranks 10. Before him are Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Orde Wingate (1903), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), and John Frost (1912). After him are Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Somnath Sharma (1923), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Bakht Khan (1797), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), and Bipin Rawat (1958).

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