Philip Chetwode
1st Baron Chetwode, British Army general (1869-1950) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 80
Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode,, was a senior British Army officer. He saw action during the Second Boer War, during which he was present at the Siege of Ladysmith in December 1899.
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Chetwode (foreground) at El Arish, Egypt, January 1917
Generals in Jerusalem in March 1918. From left to right are, Sir Edmund Allenby, Rennie MacInnes, Malcolm Donald Murray, the Duke of Connaught, Major General J S M Shea, Sir E S Bulfin, General Sir Harry Chauvel, and Chetwode.
Lieutenant General Philip Chetwode (right), GOC XX Corps, and Major General John Shea, GOC 60th (2/2nd London) Division, June 1917.
The Duke of Connaught holding an investiture in Jerusalem in February 1918. General Allenby is conversing with Chetwode in the foreground.
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He saw action again during World War I on the Western Front, taking part in the First Battle of Ypres, and then in the Sinai and Palestine campaign during which he led his corps at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917, at the Battle of Beersheba in October 1917 and the Battle of Jerusalem in November 1917.
