William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside

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William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, of Archangel and of Ironside • William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Born	May 6, 1880 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died	September 22, 1959 (aged 79) • London • England
Role In	South African War • World War I • World War II

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prime minister of United Kingdom

Bernard Law Montgomery

Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery

British military commander

Percy Hobart

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Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.

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Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.

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Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander

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Richard Nelson Gale

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Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham

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David Stirling

David Stirling

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Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson

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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

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John Cairncross

British civil servant and spy

Neville Chamberlain

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prime minister of United Kingdom

Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British commander of Allied air forces used in the Normandy Invasion.

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