General Allenby

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General Allenby is a British military commander depicted in "Lawrence of Arabia," based on the real World War I general Edmund Allenby who led campaigns in the Middle East.

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General Allenby canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British Army officer
World War I military personnel
fictional character
human
military commander
allegiance United Kingdom
appearsIn Lawrence of Arabia
awardReceived Order of St Michael and St George
Order of the Bath
Order of the Nile
basedOn Edmund Allenby
birthDate 1861-04-23
birthPlace Nottingham
surface form: Nottingham, England
branchOfService British Army
burialPlace Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
surface form: Westminster Abbey
campaign Sinai and Palestine campaign
surface form: Palestine campaign

Sinai and Palestine campaign
commissionedInto Royal Dragoon Guards
surface form: Inniskilling Dragoons
conflict Second Boer War
World War I
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 1936-05-14
deathPlace London, England
education Haileybury College
surface form: Haileybury and Imperial Service College
familyName Allenby
fullName Edmund Allenby
surface form: Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby
givenName Edmund
honorificTitle Edmund Allenby
surface form: Field Marshal Viscount Allenby
militaryRank Field Marshal
General
nickname The Bull
notableBattle Battle of Beersheba (1917)
Battle of Jerusalem (1917)
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
Battle of Passchendaele
surface form: Third Battle of Ypres
notableCommand British Egyptian Expeditionary Force
surface form: Egyptian Expeditionary Force

Third Army (United Kingdom)
surface form: Third Army (British Army)
notableFor capturing Jerusalem in 1917
leading British forces in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in World War I
occupationRole High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan
peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
portrayedBy Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins
portrayedIn Lawrence of Arabia
theatreOfWar Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Western Front
title 1st Viscount Allenby

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Lawrence of Arabia character General Allenby
Mr. Dryden associatedWith General Allenby