Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby

Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 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). When World War I broke out (1914), he commanded first the cavalry and then (1915-17) the 3d Army in France. Appointed commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in June, 1917, he waged the last of the great cavalry campaigns by invading Palestine, capturing Jerusalem, and ending Turkish resistance after the battle of Megiddo (Sept. 18-21, 1918). He served as British high commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan (1919-25). He was made viscount in 1919.

Bibliography: See A. P. Wavell, Allenby (1941) and Allenby in Egypt (1945); B. Gardner, Allenby of Arabia (1965).

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount (1861–1936) British soldier. A veteran of the Boer War, during World War I he commanded the First Cavalry Division and later the Third Army on the Western Front. In 1917 he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Having captured Jerusalem in December 1917, he went on to defeat the Turkish forces in Palestine in 1918. He was promoted to Field Marshal and later served as High Commissioner in Egypt (1919–25).