Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, The Lord Birdwood (1865 – 1951), was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener.

Birdwood saw action again in WW1 as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war.

In November 1914, Lord Kitchener ordered an operation to capture the Gallipoli peninsula and placed Birdwood's ANZAC Corps under Hamilton's command. Hamilton ordered Birdwood to carry out a landing on 25 April 1915 and the rest, as they say, is history.

Birdwood went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925.

FROM MY PRIVATE COLLECTION, HERE IS THE SIGNATURE, c1927, OF THE MAN WHO HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF BOTH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND..

Birdwood's signature is cut from an official document from the "Legislative Department of India : Office of The Commander in Chief".

Birdwood's signature is permanent.

Birdwood's signature is crystal clear.

THE SIGNATURE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE UNSIGNED 8x12-INCH PHOTO OF BIRDWOOD THAT IS SHOWN IN THE LISTING.

As always - no nonsense - I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS AND EVERY SIGNATURE IN MY COLLECTION FOR LIFE or your money back and I put that in writing too!