The author Archibald Wavell who was one of Allenby's staff officers. Allenby nicknamed the," The Bull " he was said to be bad-tempered, a obstinate hot-head, a 'thud-and-blunder' general".

Allenby supposedly once said that people would have to visit a war museum to learn of him, but that T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia ) would be remembered and become a household name.