Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
British Army general and High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine (1857-1932) · United Kingdom · On the map · Died at 75
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer was a senior British Army officer who fought in the First World War, being perhaps most notable for commanding the Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918.
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1932Died16 July 19321925Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint JohnAward1924Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British EmpireAward1918Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the BathAward1917Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian OrderAward1916Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgeAward1906Knight Commander of the Order of the BathAward1901Companion of the Order of the BathAward1857Born13 March 1857
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The retirement of the Duke of Connaught from the Aldershot Command, 1898. Stood in the back row, second from the left, is Lieutenant Colonel Plumer.
Colonel Plumer, South African Field Force, 1901.
General Plumer (left), together with General Sir Edmund Allenby (centre) and General Sir Henry Horne in conference at Camblain-Chatelain, France, c. 1916.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (right), C-in-C BEF, Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Lawrence (centre), Haig's chief of the general staff, and General Plumer, standing on the steps of Haig's general headquarters, c. 1918.
Field Marshal Haig (centre front) with his senior commanders and staff officers at Cambrai, France, 11 November 1918. Stood in the front row, to Haig's right, is General Sir Herbert Plumer.
Eighteen Old Etonian generals revisit Eton, May 1919. General Plumer is sat in the front row, second from the left.
Alessio Ascalesi, the Archbishop of Naples, with Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, and Luigi Barlassina, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, on the right, 11 August 1926Awards
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Lived 1857 to 1932 · aged 75