William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (died 1951)

William Birdwood

British Field Marshal (1865–1951)

Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. He saw action again in the First World War as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the…