Sir John Maxwell
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 95 years ago |
Date of birth | July 11,1859 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Liverpool |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | February 21,1929 |
Died | Cape Town |
South Africa | |
Battles and wars | First World War |
Second Boer War | |
World War I | |
Easter Rising | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1603330 |
Sir John Maxwell Life story
General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, GCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO, PC was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and in the First World War, but he is best known for ordering the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.