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Field Marshal Lord Birdwood
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO (1865-1951) was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord...ver másField Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO (1865-1951) was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. He saw action 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, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951-1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP).ver menos