# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lashmer-whistler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:51.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lashmer-whistler"
name: "Lashmer Whistler"
slug: "lashmer-whistler"
description: "General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler,, known as \"Bolo\", was a British Army officer who served in both the world wars. A junior officer during the First World War, during the Second World War he achieved senior rank serving with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in North Africa and North-western Europe from 1942 to 1945. Montgomery considered that Whistler \"was about the best infantry brigade commander I knew\". In peacetime, his outstanding powers of leadership were shown in a series of roles in the decolonisation process, and he reached the four-star rank of a full general, without having attended the Staff College, Camberley, then considered almost essential for an officer wishing to attain high rank, and which a significant majority of the British generals of the war had attended. This, in Richard Mead's words, was, \"proof that lacking a Staff College qualification was no barrier to advancement for the right man.\""
tagline: "British Army general (1898–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lashner_Whistler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1898-09-03"
deathDate: "1963-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.05
  momentum:             0.476190476190476
  historical:           4.808604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashmer_Whistler"
    title: "Lashmer Whistler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashmer_Whistler"
    title: "Lashmer Whistler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "لشمر ویسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashmer_Gordon_Whistler"
    title: "Lashmer Gordon Whistler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashmer_Gordon_Whistler"
    title: "Lashmer Gordon Whistler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1890375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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