# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-alderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:33:16.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-alderson"
name: "Edwin Alderson"
slug: "edwin-alderson"
description: "Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson, KCB was a senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1915 to 1916 during the First World War he commanded the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, during which time it saw heavy fighting."
tagline: "British and Canadian First World War general (1859–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gen._E.A._Alderson_-_Bain_Collection_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1859-04-08"
deathDate: "1927-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.550685333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Alfred_Hervey_Alderson"
    title: "Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Alderson"
    title: "Edwin Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Alderson"
    title: "Edwin Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ادوین آلفرد هروی آلدرسون"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Alfred_Hervey_Alderson"
    title: "Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Alderson"
    title: "Edwin Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Элдерсон, Эдвин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2371313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump