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Bookmark or Share- The Palestine Campaign: How Britain Captured Jerusalem in ... - History Hit06 Dec 2018. The appointment of General Edmund Allenby as commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary force in June 1917 revitalised the Palestine Campaign. His orders from Prime Minister David Lloyd George were to capture Jerusalem by Christmas. And that’s exactly what he did, making a low-key entrance on 11 December, 1917.
- Lawrence of Arabia . General Allenby | PBSAs the first Christian conqueror of the Holy City since the Crusades, Allenby ordered his troops to dismount as a mark of respect when they entered the city. The following year Allenby defeated...
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - WikipediaField Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ (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 ...
- Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount | International ...Field Marshal Edmund Allenby was a British army officer who commanded a variety of formations on the Western Front, including the Third Army (October 1915 - June 1917) and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from June 1917 until the end of the First World War.
- First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Edmund AllenbySir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936) who was born in Brackenhurst on 23 April 1861, began his military career with the Inniskilling Dragoons in 1882 following an education at the Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst), serving in South Africa between 1884-88 and taking part in the Second Boer War from 1899-1901.
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