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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer

1857 - 1932

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Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer has received more than 250,343 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer is the 1,555th most popular military personnel (down from 1,362nd in 2019), the 4,005th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,535th in 2019) and the 100th most popular British Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer ranks 1,555 out of 1,468. Before him are Rufina Gasheva, John F. Reynolds, Michael Mullen, George W. Casey Jr., Issam Zahreddine, and Reginald Dyer. After him are Miles Dempsey, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alexandros Othonaios, A. P. Hill, Aviv Kochavi, and Zhanna Yorkina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer ranks 116. Before him are Otto Stapf, Gunnar Heiberg, Michael Pedersen Friis, František Ondříček, Pedro Paterno, and Charles Frédéric Petit. After him are John Jacob Abel, Max Weiss, Edward Henry Potthast, Charles B. Cory, Frank J. Sprague, and John Joly. Among people deceased in 1932, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer ranks 118. Before him are Wovoka, Theo Heemskerk, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Josephine Crowell, Julieta Lanteri, and Pritilata Waddedar. After him are Zoltán Ambrus, Leónidas Plaza, Frantz Reichel, Ernest Mangnall, Malcolm Whitman, and Väinö Siikaniemi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer ranks 4,005 out of 7,765. Before him are Freema Agyeman (1979), Boyd Alexander (1873), Richard Sinclair (1948), Chris Bonington (1934), Susan Blackmore (1951), and Paul Gallagher (1954). After him are Miles Dempsey (1896), Mary Moser (1744), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Alex Salmond (1954), Mark Herman (1954), and Mary Everest Boole (1832).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer ranks 100. Before him are John Byng (1704), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Reginald Wingate (1861), and Dudley Pound (1877). After him are Miles Dempsey (1896), Oliver Leese (1894), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), John Dill (1881), John André (1750), and Arnold Jackson (1891).

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