Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War, in which he led t
Allenby in 1917
Allenby (centre), together with General Sir Herbert Plumer (left) and General Sir Henry Horne in conference at Camblain-Chatelain, France, 1916.
Allenby and King Albert I of Belgium.
Drawing of Allenby from journal "The War" c. 1917
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The Arab Revolt, also known as the Great Arab Revolt, was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
…EEF into a three primary corps order of battle: XX, XXI, and the Desert Mounted Corps. He also approved the use of Arabic irregular forces which were operating at that time to the Turkish Army's open left flank in the Arabian interior, under the direction of a young British Army intelligence officer named T. E. Lawrence…
Soldiers of the Sharifian Army carrying the flag of the Arab Revolt in southern Yanbu
The flag of the Arab Revolt in the Martyrs' Memorial, Amman, Jordan.
Lawrence at Rabegh, north of Jeddah, 1917.
Lawrence of Arabia after the Battle of Aqaba.