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Encyclopedia > Baron Ironside

The title of Baron Ironside was created in the Gibraltar.


Barons Ironside (1941)

  • William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880_1959)
  • Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (b. 1924)

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Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside at AllExperts (702 words)
Ironside was sent to Archangel in north Russia in 1918, and placed in command of the Allied army fighting against the Bolsheviks.
Ironside's decision "to let the Cossacks go" was, according to his diary, because he wanted a strong military commander in the capital to save the country from the Bolsheviks and chaos and safeguard the imminent withdrawal of NORPERFORCE from Persia.
Ironside was appointed head of Eastern Command in 1936 and served as governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar (1938-39).
::Tiny Ironside:: (453 words)
William 'Tiny' Ironside was given the task of ensuring that Britain was a fortress post-Dunkirk.
Ironside was a career army officer and he used all his expertise and experience to ensure that Britain was as safe from invasion as was physically possible given the success of Blitzkrieg both in Poland and Western Europe.
Ironside was then given a succession of senior staff positions and on the eve of World War Two he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
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