THE NEW COMMANDER IN PALESTINE
GENERAL SIR E. H. 11. ALLKNBY. ' 'General Sir E. H, .11. Allenby, K.C.8., recently arrived in Egypt, and has taken ever the command of the Expeditionary I'orce. Sir Archibald■ Murray's, successor in the command of the army on ,the Palestine front, which has not been seriously engaged since the second attack on Gaza in April, has hitherto commanded the Third Army in France. In the years immediately before the war he was Inspector- of Cavalry. By its victory at Arrns the Third Army breached the northern end of tie Hindenbmg line, and its sharo in the booty of the first chose of the battle was. 8000 prisoners and 150 guns. General Allenby, who is 56 years of age, had seer, service in,more than one'expedition in South Africa before he rejoined his regiment (the luniskilling Dragoons) to take part in the South African War. He was present at the. operations at Raardebcrg, and the actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Xliimond Hill, and was three times mentioned in difipatohef. receiving the brevet pf colonel and ■the C.B. ...
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 7
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180THE NEW COMMANDER IN PALESTINE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 7
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