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rdfs:label | - Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
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rdfs:comment | - Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a British Army officer who served in World War I. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines in June 1917, started with what was described as the loudest explosion in human history, created by the simultaneous explosion of 19 mines by the Royal Engineer tunnelling companies. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.
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Years | - 1904
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laterwork | - High Commissioner of Palestine
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abstract | - Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a British Army officer who served in World War I. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines in June 1917, started with what was described as the loudest explosion in human history, created by the simultaneous explosion of 19 mines by the Royal Engineer tunnelling companies. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.
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