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- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside abstract "Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, DSO (6 May 1880 – 22 September 1959) was a senior officer of the British Army, who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War.Ironside joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1899, and served throughout the Second Boer War, followed by a brief period spying on the German colonial forces in South-West Africa. Returning to regular duty, he served on the staff of a Regular Army division during the first two years of the First World War, before being appointed on the staff of the newly raised 4th Canadian Division in 1916. In 1918 he was given command of a brigade on the Western Front, but was quickly promoted to command the Allied intervention force in northern Russia in 1919, then an Allied force occupying Turkey, and finally a British force in Persia in 1921. He was offered the post of the commander of British forces in Iraq, but was unable to take up the role due to injuries in a flying accident.He returned to the Army as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, where he advocated the ideas of J. F. C. Fuller, a proponent of mechanisation. He later commanded a division, and military districts in both Britain and India, but his youth and his blunt approach limited his career prospects, and after being passed over for the role of Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) in 1937 he became Governor of Gibraltar, a traditional staging post to retirement. He was recalled from \"exile\" in mid-1939, being appointed as Inspector-General of Overseas Forces, a role which led most observers to expect he would be given the command of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the outbreak of war.However, after some political manoeuvring, General The Viscount Gort was given this command, and Ironside was appointed as the new Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Ironside himself believed that he was temperamentally unsuited to the job, but felt obliged to accept it. In early 1940 he argued heavily for Allied intervention in Scandinavia, but this plan was shelved at the last minute when the Finnish-Soviet Winter War ended. During the invasion of Norway and the Battle of France he played little part; his involvement in the latter was limited by a breakdown in relations between him and Gort. He was replaced as CIGS at the end of May, and given a role to which he was more suited: Commander-in-Chief Home Forces, responsible for anti-invasion defences and for commanding the Army in the event of German landings. However, he served less than two months in this role before being replaced. After this, Ironside was promoted to Field Marshal and raised to the peerage as Baron Ironside.Lord Ironside retired to Morley Old Hall in Norfolk to write, and never again saw active service or held any official position.".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Croix_de_guerre_1914–1918_(France).
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Distinguished_Service_Order.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Legion_of_Honour.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_Saint_John_(chartered_1888).
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_St._Vladimir.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_the_Bath.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_the_Lion_and_the_Sun.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside award Order_of_the_Rising_Sun.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside battle North_Russia_Intervention.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside battle Second_Boer_War.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside battle World_War_I.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside battle World_War_II.
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1918)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1921)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1922–26)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1926–28)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1936–38)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1939)".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "(1939–40)".
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- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "2nd Division".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "99th Infantry Brigade".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "Army Inspector-General".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "C-in-C Home Forces".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "Chief IGS".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "Eastern Command".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "North Persian Force".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside militaryCommand "Staff College".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside serviceEndYear "1940".
- Edmund_Ironside,_1st_Baron_Ironside serviceStartYear "1899".
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