| LC control no. | n 98034234 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Birdwood, William Riddell Birdwood, Baron, 1865-1951 |
| Variant(s) | Birdwood, William Riddell, Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951 Birdwood, William Riddell Birdwood, Lord, 1865-1951 Birdwood, William Riddell, Lord Birdwood, 1865-1951 Birdwood, W. R. (William Riddell), 1865-1951 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Australia India New Zealand Anzak Cove (Turkey) Totnes (England) |
| Birth date | 1865-09-13 |
| Death date | 1951-05-17 |
| Place of birth | Poona (India) |
| Place of death | Richmond upon Thames (London, England) |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Generals |
| Found in | Burt, M. Lean Brown men, 1940: title page (with a foreword by Field-Marshal the Lord Birdwood, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., C.I.E., D.S.O., D.C.L., LL. D., formerly Commander-in-Chief in India) foreword ([signed] Birdwood, F.-M., Deal Castle, Kent) Khaki and gown, 1941: title page (by Field-Marshall Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., C.I.E., D.S.O., LL. D., D.C.L., D. Litt., M.A.) Reminiscences of the residencies of the commanders-in-chief in India in Simla, Calcutta, Old and New Delhi, 2006: t.p. (Field Marshal Sir W.R. Birdwood) NUCMC data from North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Archives and Records Section for Hoch family collection : Arthur Campbell Yate papers, 1833-1926 (Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood) DNB, 1951-1960 (Birdwood, William Riddell, first Baron Birdwood (1865-1951); field marshal) Wikipedia, viewed 30 July 2024: William Birdwood (Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO; born in Kirkee, India, on 13 September 1865; educated at Clifton College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1885, promoted to captain in 1896, to brevet major and local lieutenant-colonel in 1901, to brevet lieutenant-colonel in the South African Honours list in 1902, to major in 1903, to colonel in 1905, to temporary brigadier-general in 1909, to major-general in 1911, to temporary lieutenant-general in 1914, to the permanent rank of lieutenant-general in 1915, to full general in 1917, and to field marshal (with the corresponding honorary rank in the Australian Military Forces) in 1925; saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener and 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, and as commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war, and later became general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925; appointed Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1931, and Captain of Deal Castle in 1934; made a Baronet, of Anzac and of Totnes, in the County of Devon, on 29 December 1919, and raised to the peerage as Baron Birdwood, of Anzac and of Totnes, on 25 January 1938; died at Hampton Court Palace, where he lived in grace-and-favour apartments, on 17 May 1951) |
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