# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-erskine
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:02.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-erskine"
name: "George Erskine"
slug: "george-erskine"
description: "General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine, was a British Army officer from Hascombe, Surrey. After he graduated from Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Erskine was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps and saw action on the Western Front of the First World War. During the Second World War, he commanded the 7th Armoured Division from 1943 to 1944. Erksine later commanded counterinsurgency operations against the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) during the Mau Mau rebellion."
tagline: "British Army officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lieutenant_General_Sir_George_Erskine%2C_Commander-in-Chief%2C_East_Africa_(centre)%2C_observing_operations_against_the_Mau_Mau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1899-08-23"
deathDate: "1965-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.81850533807829
  historical:           10.96616533333333
  currentAttention:     10.36
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "區士覲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چورچ ارسكين"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "جورج واتکین ایبن جیمز ارسکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Erskine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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    title: "George Erskine"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Watkin_Eben_James_Erskine"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump