# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-wogan-festing
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:23:09.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-wogan-festing"
name: "Francis Wogan Festing"
slug: "francis-wogan-festing"
description: "Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing, was a senior British Army officer. His most important posts were as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong, General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Troops in Egypt (1952), GOC Eastern Command (1954), Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces (1956), and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1958–61). He saw active service in the Second World War, taking a prominent role in Operation Ironclad and the Arakan offensive of the Burma campaign, and later advised the British government on ending conscription and reducing the size of the army by fifteen battalions."
tagline: "Army officer (1902–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ffesting.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1902-08-28"
deathDate: "1976-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.27
  momentum:             0.8631578947368421
  historical:           7.885242666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E5%A3%AB%E5%BB%B7"
    title: "菲士廷"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "فرانسيس فيستينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Festing"
    title: "Francis Festing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Festing"
    title: "Francis Festing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "فرانسیس ووگان فستینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Festing"
    title: "Francis Festing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Festing"
    title: "Francis Festing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Фестинг, Фрэнсис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wogan_Festing"
    title: "Francis Wogan Festing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1763476"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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