MILITARY PERSONNEL

Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside

1880 - 1959

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Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, (6 May 1880 – 22 September 1959) was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War. Ironside joined the Royal Artillery in 1899, and served throughout the Second Boer War. This was followed by a brief period spying on the German colonial forces in South-West Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside has received more than 443,940 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside is the 1,386th most popular military personnel (down from 1,318th in 2019), the 2,321st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,562nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 1,386 out of 2,058. Before him are Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia, Sergei Khudyakov, Georg von Derfflinger, Cândido Rondon, Magnia Urbica, and Hossein Salami. After him are Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Gyula Cseszneky, Erich Bey, and Eino Rahja.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 111. Before him are Frigyes Riesz, Lytton Strachey, Alfred J. Lotka, Mirza Kuchik Khan, B. C. Forbes, and Hans Hofmann. After him are Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Walter Hohmann, Samuel Jones, and Jeannette Rankin. Among people deceased in 1959, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 90. Before him are Ingrid Vang Nyman, Bak Jungyang, Vincent Richards, Luigi Sturzo, Fernand Bouisson, and Giovanni Pastrone. After him are Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Oskar Vogt, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, Ion Gigurtu, and Aleksandr Khinchin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 2,321 out of 8,785. Before him are Murray Head (1946), Martin Donnelly (1964), John Machin (1680), Edward Wilson (1872), Julian Bream (1933), and Roy Salvadori (1922). After him are Chris Squire (1948), Guy Edwards (1942), Roger Williams (1603), Jamie Dornan (1982), Gerry Rafferty (1947), and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 60. Before him are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Claude Choules (1901), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), John Paul Jones (1747), Gregor MacGregor (1786), and David Stirling (1915). After him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Sidney Smith (1764), John Alcock (1892), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), Patrick Gordon (1635), and Douglas Bader (1910).

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