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William Birdwood
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William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
Field Marshal
William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
(13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a
British Army
officer. He saw active service in the
Second Boer War
on the staff of
Lord Kitchener
. He saw action again in the
First World War
as Commander of the
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
during the
Gallipoli Campaign
in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the
Fifth Army
on the
Western Front
during the closing stages of the war. He went on to be General Officer Commanding the
Northern Army
in India in 1920 and
Commander-in-Chief, India
, in 1925.
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