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Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount 1861-1936
English field marshal
Educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst, he joined the Inniskilling Dragoons. He served in South Africa (1884-85, 1888), and in the Second Boer War (1899-1902). In World War I his command in France (1915-17) captured the Vimy Ridge, after which he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian expeditionary force against the Turks, took Beersheba and Gaza, and entered Jerusalem (1917). In the following year he routed the Turks in the great cavalry Battle of Megiddo. Promoted field marshal, he was High Commissioner in Egypt (1919-25), and granted independence to Ethiopia in 1922.
Bibliography: Lawrence James, Imperial Warrior: the life and times of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936 (1993)
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