John Bagot Glubb
| Sir John Bagot Glubb | |
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Glubb Pasha (1953)
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| Nickname(s) | Glubb Pasha |
| Born |
16 April 1897 Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 17 March 1986 (aged 88) Mayfield, East Sussex, England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom Jordan
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| Years of service | 1915 – 1956 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
Royal Engineers Arab Legion |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II: -Anglo-Iraqi War -Syria-Lebanon campaign 1948 Arab-Israeli War |
| Awards |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
| Other work | Author |
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC (16 April 1897, Preston, Lancashire – 17 March 1986), known as Glubb Pasha, was a British soldier, scholar and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. During the First World War, he served in France.
Born in Preston, Lancashire, and educated at Cheltenham College, Glubb gained a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1915. On the Western Front of World War I he received a serious wound – a shattered jaw. In later years this would lead to his Arab nickname of Abu Hunaik, meaning "the one with the little jaw". He was then transferred to Iraq in 1920, which Britain had started governing under a League of Nations Mandate following war, and was posted to Ramadi in 1922 "to maintain a rickety floating bridge over the river [Euphrates], carried on boats made of reeds daubed with bitumen", as he later put it. He became an officer of the Arab Legion in 1930. The next year he formed the Desert Patrol — a force consisting exclusively of Bedouin — to curb the raiding problem that plagued the southern part of the country. Within a few years he had persuaded the Bedouin to abandon their habit of raiding neighbouring tribes.
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