# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyril-deverell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:00:46.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cyril-deverell"
name: "Cyril Deverell"
slug: "cyril-deverell"
description: "Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, from 1936 to 1937. Prior to his becoming CIGS, he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War and the First World War, during which he commanded at battalion, brigade and division level, and later advised the British government on the importance of maintaining the capability to mount an Expeditionary Force for operations on mainland Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War."
tagline: "Army officer (1874–1947)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Sir_Cyril_John_Deverell.jpg/330px-Sir_Cyril_John_Deverell.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1874-11-09"
deathDate: "1947-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.53846153846154
  historical:           8.942585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Cyril Deverell"
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    title: "Cyril Deverell"
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    title: "Cyril Deverell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump