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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby has received more than 733,165 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby is the 402nd most popular military personnel (up from 421st in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 828th in 2019) and the 13th 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 402 out of 1,468Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Nikolai Kuznetsov, William Tecumseh Sherman, Roman Shukhevych, Honda Tadakatsu, and Erasmo of Narni. After him are Hermann Balck, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, and Herbert Gille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 26Before him are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Maximilian von Spee, Antoine Bourdelle, Italo Svevo, José Rizal, and Ranavalona III. After him are Anton Arensky, William Bateson, Henry Gantt, Armando Diaz, István Tisza, and Nettie Stevens. Among people deceased in 1936, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 42Before him are Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Karl Pearson, Antoine Meillet, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Georgy Chicherin. After him are Robert Michels, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Gustloff, José Sanjurjo, and Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 767 out of 7,765Before him are Ronald Fisher (1890), Philip Sclater (1829), Mungo Park (1771), Edmund Cartwright (1743), Tim Roth (1961), and John Ambrose Fleming (1849). After him are Kenny Dalglish (1951), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Bryan Ferry (1945), James Gregory (1638), E. M. Forster (1879), and Charles Laughton (1899).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ranks 13Before him are Alexander Selkirk (1676), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), and John Franklin (1786). After him are John Hanning Speke (1827), John Hawkins (1532), James Paul Moody (1887), William Bligh (1754), Harold Lowe (1882), and Paddy Roy Bates (1921).