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William Birdwood

1865 - 1951

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Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. He saw action again in the First World War as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Birdwood has received more than 249,622 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William Birdwood is the 1,808th most popular military personnel, the 634th most popular biography from India and the 11th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Birdwood ranks 1,808 out of 2,058. Before him are Adasi, Dudley Pound, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, Richard S. Ewell, Richard Marcinko, and John Eisenhower. After him are Luigi Capello, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, Stanley Maude, Mikhail Yefremov, Martin Dempsey, and Marie Ljalková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, William Birdwood ranks 138. Before him are Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Otto Modersohn, Olavo Bilac, Charles Champaud, Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, and Walter Leistikow. After him are Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Gustaf Söderström, Ángel Ganivet, Johannes Thiele, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Hermann Hirt. Among people deceased in 1951, William Birdwood ranks 139. Before him are Will Keith Kellogg, Fanny Brice, María Grever, Ignaty Krachkovsky, Gunnar Lindström, and Pauline Pfeiffer. After him are Pierre Braine, Zoltán Mechlovits, Ivor Novello, Gaston Peltier, Urho Peltonen, and Yrjö Saarela.

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In India

Among people born in India, William Birdwood ranks 634 out of 1,861. Before him are Abhishek Bachchan (1976), Oswald Gracias (1944), Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), and Wasim Sajjad (1941). After him are S. Jaishankar (1955), Pratibha Ray (1944), Sudha Murty (1950), Rakesh Roshan (1949), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), and Preity Zinta (1975).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, William Birdwood ranks 11. Before him are Orde Wingate (1903), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Sam Manekshaw (1914), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), John Frost (1912), and Somnath Sharma (1923). After him are Bakht Khan (1797), Bipin Rawat (1958), John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Vikram Batra (1974), and Padma Bandopadhyay (1944).

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