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unusual facts about Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet



Siege of Kut

The first relief expedition comprised some 19,000 men under General Aylmer and it headed up the river from Ali Gharbi in January 1916.

Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet

He was in command of the first failed efforts to break the siege of Kut in 1916.

With time running out on General Townshend's garrison in Kut, Aylmer finally launched a two pronged attack on the Ottoman positions, one attack at the Sinn Abtar Redoubt, the other attack at the Dujaila Redoubt.

Having been promoted to lieutenant general, Aylmer was put in charge of the first effort to end the siege of Kut.

Lieutenant General Sir Fenton John Aylmer, 13th Baronet of Donadea, VC, KCB (5 April 1862 – 3 September 1935) was an Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

William Murray Jardine

Sir William Murray Jardine, 13th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire was born on the 4th July 1984.


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