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    Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer...
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    Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem built a bridge at this site. In 1918 British general Edmund Allenby built a bridge over the remnant of the Ottoman predecessor. The 1922...
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    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...
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  • Allenby is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861–1936), British Army field-marshal...
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    fighting took place near Tel Megiddo, was chosen by British commander Edmund Allenby for its biblical and symbolic resonance. The battle was the final Allied...
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    with a strong military figure, Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby (later created 1st Viscount Allenby in October of that year), one of the greatest British...
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  • Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby, and his first wife, Gertrude Mary Lethbridge (née Champneys) Allenby (1905 - 1988). He was the great-nephew of Edmund Allenby...
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    him with the new arrival.[citation needed] Jack Hawkins as General Edmund Allenby. Spiegel pushed Lean to cast Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier (who was...
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    Navy. Theatre commanders like Douglas Haig on the Western Front or Edmund Allenby in Palestine then reported to the CIGS. After the Indian Army, the largest...
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    significant rift between the Division and its Commander-in-Chief, Sir Edmund Allenby. During the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I, Allied forces...
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    stalemate in Southern Palestine from April to October 1917, General Edmund Allenby captured Beersheba from the III Corps. The Ottoman defences were captured...
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  • nationalists managed to obtain the agreement of British High Commissioner Edmund Allenby to secure the more general issue of Egyptian sovereignty with a view...
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    surrendered to the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby during the Battle of Jerusalem in December 1917 during World War I....
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    Arab regulars who fought during the Sinai and Palestine campaign with Edmund Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and not the irregular forces under the...
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  • continuing Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe, which had been launched by General Edmund Allenby on 1 November, it eventually broke the Gaza-to-Beersheba line defended...
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    about the same time, British general Edmund Allenby replaced General Archibald Murray as commander of the EEF. Allenby reorganized the EEF to give him direct...
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    territory south of Jerusalem, the city was secured. On 11 December, General Edmund Allenby entered the Old City on foot through the Jaffa Gate instead of horse...
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    British and Arab forces' defeat of the Ottoman empire, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby announced that Ottoman Syria was to be split into three administrative...
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    Great Northern Railway Henry L. Stimson – Secretary of War Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, General (later Field Marshal), British Army HM Albert I...
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    Samakh. The commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, General Edmund Allenby ordered Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel's Desert Mounted Corps to pursue...
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    Exercise (1962) as Stanley Harrington Lawrence of Arabia (1962) as General Edmund Allenby Rampage (1963) as Otto Abbot Zulu (1964) as Otto Witt The Third Secret...
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    which took the Turkish defences from behind. After Aqaba, General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, agreed...
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  • October 1917, Murray consolidated the EF's position and in June General Edmund Allenby took command and began preparations to take the offensive, employing...
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    Megiddo was fought during World War I. Allied troops, led by General Edmund Allenby fought a defending Ottoman army near the site of the ancient ruin. The...
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    his death." In World War I, when British troops commanded by General Edmund Allenby captured Jerusalem, the British press printed cartoons of Richard looking...
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  • Maryland, United States Be'er Sheva, Israel, named by British General Edmund Allenby the "Crown Jewel of the Negev", and the "Desert City of Light" Birmingham...
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    December 1917 with the arrival in Jerusalem in particular of General Edmund Allenby and which was then placed by decision of the League of Nations in 1920...
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    in January 1917 and at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917. When Edmund Allenby took command of the Allied forces in Palestine in June 1917, Chetwode...
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  • This is the order of battle for the First Battle of Ypres fought from 19 October to 22 November 1914 as one of the main engagements of the First World...
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    World War I, the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force, under command of Edmund Allenby, captured Damascus on 30 September 1918. Shortly thereafter, on 3 October...
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