HOLY LAND VICTOR.
ALLENBY TO VISIT ENGLAND,
(Received 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. Viscount Allenby will arrive in London on the 10th inst. A big welcome awaits him.—A. and N.Z.
Field-M-arshal Viscount Allenby— his promotion to the rank of fieldmarshal, was announced on August 4th—was born in 1861, and began his military career in the Inniskilling Dragoons. On the despatch of the Expeditionary Force to France in August, 1914 f General Allenby took command of the Cavalry Division of four brigades. In the crisis of the second battle of Ypres he commanded the Fifth Brigade Corps. Later h e was appointed ,to the command of an army, and in that capacity he directed the great British advance between Lens and Arras in April, 1917. In June, 1917, Sir Edmund Allenby was appointed to the command of the British Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Sinai, succeeding General Sir Archibald Murray. Under his direction commenced a series of victorious operations, which resulted in the complete defeat of the Turks in- that theatre, and forced Turkey to sue for peace.
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Northern Advocate, 3 September 1919, Page 5
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