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Allenby (other)
Allenby is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861–1936), British Army field-marshal ** Named for the above: **Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, Israel **Allenby Bridge between Jordan and West Bank. **Allenby Square, name given in succession to two squares in Jerusalem **''Allenby Camp'', site of a former British Army camp in Jerusalem **''Allenby Garden'' in Beersheba ** ''Foch-Allenby'', neighborhood in Beirut Central District **Allenby, British Columbia, Canada (adjacent Allenby Lake was named for the town, not Lord Allenby) ** Allenby Junior public school, Toronto, Ontario, Canada *Braden Allenby (born 1950), American environmental scientist *Cecil Allenby (1873–1932), English cricketer *Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby (1903–1984), British soldier *Jim Allenby (born 1982), Australian cricketer *Kate Allenby (born 1974), British modern pentathlete *Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby (1931–2014), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps captured Damascus and advanced into northern Syria. During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence (''"Lawrence of Arabia"''), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
