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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 also in World War I, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby has received more than 818,181 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby is the 266th most popular military personnel (up from 402nd in 2019), the 511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 767th in 2019) and the 10th 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

Among military personnels, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 266 out of 2,058. Before him are Hasdrubal Barca, Omar Bradley, Baiju, Zhang Liao, Nikolai Vatutin, and Erwin von Witzleben. After him are Pedro de Alvarado, Erich Hoepner, Orda Khan, Robert Nivelle, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and Pedro de Valdivia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 20. Before him are James Naismith, Robert Bosch, José Rizal, Aristide Maillol, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After him are H. H. Holmes, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Antoine Bourdelle, Italo Svevo, Maximilian von Spee, and Ranavalona III. Among people deceased in 1936, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 30. Before him are Buenaventura Durruti, Ottorino Respighi, Hans von Seeckt, Karl Kraus, Charles Nicolle, and Andrija Mohorovičić. After him are Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, Anne Sullivan, Georg Michaelis, and Karl Pearson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 511 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Jim Clark (1936), Henry the Young King (1155), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Gary Moore (1952), and Douglas Adams (1952). After him are William Wilberforce (1759), Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Archer Martin (1910), and Peter Gabriel (1950).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 10. Before him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Alexander Selkirk (1676), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), and Gertrude Bell (1868). After him are Rudolf Abel (1903), James Paul Moody (1887), John Franklin (1786), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), and Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861).

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