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Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (* 23. April 1861 in Brackenhurst Hall, Nottinghamshire; † 14. Mai 1936 in London) war ein britischer Feldmarschall, der im Ersten Weltkrieg insbesondere als Kommandeur der alliierten Truppen auf dem Sinai und in Palästina 1917/18 berühmt wurde.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861–1936), British Field Marshal by Henry Walter Barnett. Allenby was made a field marshal on 31 July 1919, and created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, on 7 October.
10. Mai 2024 · Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (born April 23, 1861, Brackenhurst, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died May 14, 1936, London) was a field marshal, the last great British leader of mounted cavalry, who directed the Palestine campaign in World War I.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
General Sir Edmund Allenby led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force to victory in Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918. He successfully pioneered the combined use of infantry, cavalry, tanks, artillery and aeroplanes at the Battle of Megiddo.
24. März 2020 · Field Marshal Edmund Allenby was a British army officer who commanded a variety of formations on the Western Front, including the Third Army (October 1915 - June 1917) and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from June 1917 until the end of the First World War.
It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his younger brother Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and his heirs male lawfully begotten. The first Viscount's son was killed in action on the Western Front in 1917. [1]
British general who led the Allied expeditionary force that overwhelmed Turkish and German forces in Palestine during the closing stages of World War I. He received a knighthood in 1915 and was created Viscount Allenby of Megiddo in 1919.
