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Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation.
14 de ene. de 2008 · Field Marshall Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Commander of the Canadian Corps from 1915 to 1917 and Governor General of Canada from 1921 to 1926 (born 11 September 1862 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom; died 6 June 1935 in Essex, United Kingdom).
Byng of Vimy Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng commanded the Canadian Corps on the Western Front from May 1916 to June 1917. He forged the Canadians into an elite fighting formation, leading them through the battles of Mount Sorrel, the Somme, and Vimy Ridge.
World War I. Battle of Arras. Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy (born Sept. 11, 1862, Wrotham Park, Middlesex, Eng.—died June 6, 1935, Thorpe Hall, Essex) was a British field marshal and a commander in World War I. A career soldier from 1883, Byng was promoted to major general in 1909.
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Byng, Julian Hedworth George, Viscount Byng of Vimy 1862-1935, field-marshal, was born at Wrotham Park, Barnet, 11 September 1862, the youngest of the four sons of George Stevens Byng, second Earl of Strafford, by his second wife, Harriet Elizabeth, younger daughter of Charles Compton Cavendish, first Lord Chesham.
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy. (1862-1935), Field Marshal. 20th Century Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 15 portraits. Born in Barnet, Hertfordshire and educated at Eton College; an excellent horseman, Byng was gazetted into the 10th Royal Hussars in 1883, the Prince of Wales' own regiment; he first experienced action in 1884 as ...
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