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  Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subsequently, Allenby led the Inniskillings in the advance on Barberton and engaged the Boers at Lake Chrissie, during which the Cavalry Division was continually engaged by the Boers in Eastern Transvaal.
Allenby chose to steer a middle path, in which the importance of firepower was emphasised through the introduction of the machine gun and the training of cavalrymen in infantry tactics, whilst the alternative of relying on shock action where necessary was kept open.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on 7 October of that year was created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk.
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Allenby was sent to Egypt to be made commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force[?] on June 27, 1917, replacing Sir Archibald Murray[?].
Having reorganised his regular forces Allenby won the Third Battle of Gaza[?] (October 31-November 7, 1917) by surprising the defenders with an attack at Beersheba[?].
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6 was created Viscount of Megiddo.
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 Edmund Allenby jerak.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Subsequently, Allenby led the Inniskillings in the advance on Barberton, South Africa and engaged the Boers at Lake Chrissie, during which the Cavalry Division was continually engaged by the Boers in Eastern Transvaal.
Allenby asked Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, commanding in South Africa, to rest his weary column, and was duly promised a fortnight’s rest.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6 of that year was created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo (place) and of Felixstowe in the Suffolk.
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 Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Biography / Biography of Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Biography
The English field marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936), was a commander during World War I. His fame rests largely on his leadership in the Allied victory over the Turkish armies in 1917-1918.
Edmund Allenby was born on April 23, 1861, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.
Allenby was commissioned in the army in 1882 and sent with his unit to South Africa, too late for the battle of Majuba Hill, won by Boer force.
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 Allenby Edmund Henry Hynman 1st Viscount Allenby - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936), British field marshal.
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby was born in Felixstowe,...
Grey, Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), British statesman, born in London, and educated at the University of Oxford.
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Viscount Allenby is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)
Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby (1903-1984)
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 thePeerage.com - Guy de Crecy, Comte de Rochefort sur Yvelin and others
     Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo was born on 23 April 1861 in Brackenhurst, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.
She married Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, son of Hyman Allenby and Catherine Anne Cane, on 30 December 1896 in Donhead, St. Andrews, Wiltshire, England.
Horace Michael Hynman Allenby was born on 11 January 1898 in Donhead House, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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 Biography of Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby | Life of Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby
The English field marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936), was a commander during World War I. His fame rests largely on his leadership in the Allied victory over the Turkish armies in 1917-1918.Edmund Allenby was born on April 23, 1861, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.
Associated Organizations Further Reading The standard biography is Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, Allenby: A Study in Greatness (2 vols., 1940-1943), a balanced account by a World War II commander.
Other sources are Raymond Savage, Allenby of Armageddon: A Record of the Career and Campaigns of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby (1925), and the pertinent chapter in B. Liddell Hart, Reputations, Ten Years After (1928; repr.
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 War: Edmund Allenby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Born in Brackenhurst, he was educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
One of Allenby's first moves was to support the efforts of T. Lawrence amongst the Arabs with £200,000 a month.
Turkey capitulated on October 30, 1918 Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6 was created Viscount of Megiddo.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ALLENBY, EDMUND HENRY HYNMAN ALLENBY, 1ST VISCOUNT [Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount], 1861-1936, British field marshal.
Educated at Sandhurst, he saw active service in Bechuanaland (1884-85) and Zululand (1888) and in the South African War (1899-1902).
Bibliography: See A. Wavell, Allenby (1941) and Allenby in Egypt (1945); B. Gardner, Allenby of Arabia (1965).
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 AIM25: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: ALLENBY, FM Edmund (Henry Hynman), 1st ...
Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford holds additional correspondence relating to Allenby and his service in the Middle East in the papers of Sir Milne Cheetham, Col C F Ryder, Gerald Delany, Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel and Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Bt.
The Imperial War Museum holds correspondence with Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1918-1921 (Ref: HHW), six letters from Allenby to George Yardley, 1917-1922, and one to E S Jackson, 1934.
The papers of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, at the House of Lords Records Office include correspondence, 1918-1921.
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