# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-birdwood-1st-baron-birdwood
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:51:07.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-birdwood-1st-baron-birdwood"
name: "William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood"
slug: "william-birdwood-1st-baron-birdwood"
description: "Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, was a senior and highly decorated and distinguished British Indian Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. Birdwood saw action again in the First World War, initially as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander of the Australian Corps and the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He then went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925, and retired as a field marshal."
tagline: "British Field Marshal 1865–1951 (1865–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/W._R._Birdwood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1865-09-13"
deathDate: "1951-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.512788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump