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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 397,566 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside is the 1,319th most popular military personnel (down from 1,244th in 2019), the 2,568th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,667th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 1,319 out of 1,468. Before him are Guglielmo Pepe, James Somerville, Kurt Feldt, Laomedon of Mytilene, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, and Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin. After him are Sergei Khudyakov, Peter Cosgrove, Pedro Teixeira, Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus, Henri Dentz, and Douglas Bader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 119. Before him are Carl Schuricht, W. C. Fields, Jeannette Rankin, Frigyes Riesz, Tom Mix, and Richard Oswald. After him are Azim Azimzade, Joseph Grew, Samuel Jones, Radclyffe Hall, Nikolai Podvoisky, and Thomas H. Ince. Among people deceased in 1959, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 95. Before him are Charles Starkweather, Bernard Berenson, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Ragnar Nurkse, and Ernst Fast. After him are Benjamin Christensen, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Alfonso Reyes, Ion Gigurtu, Galaktion Tabidze, and Kazimierz Bein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 2,568 out of 7,765. Before him are Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Sydney Chapman (1888), Rachel Roberts (1927), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841), and Richard Addinsell (1904). After him are Phil Read (1939), Alan Lee (1947), Sam Allardyce (1954), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside ranks 64. Before him are Patrick Gordon (1635), Claude Choules (1901), Horatio Gates (1727), George Rooke (1650), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), and James Somerville (1882). After him are Douglas Bader (1910), Charles Warren (1840), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797), John Burgoyne (1722), and Ronald Speirs (1920).

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