Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer

Field Marshal The Right Honourable The Viscount Plumer GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, KStJ
Portrait by Alexander Bassano, 1899
Born	(1857-03-13)13 March 1857 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
Died	16 July 1932(1932-07-16) (aged 75) Knightsbridge, London, England, United Kingdom
Buried	Westminster Abbey
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1876–1919
Rank	Field Marshal
Unit	65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot York and Lancaster Regiment
Commands	British Army of the Rhine Second Army Northern Command 5th Division 7th Division 10th Division 4th Brigade
Battles / wars	Mahdist War Second Matabele War Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in Despatches
Other work	High Commissioner of Palestine

Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.