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  1. Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG, GCB, OM, GCMG, CSI, DSO, MC, CD, PC (Can), PC, (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969) was a senior and highly decorated British Army officer who served in both of the world wars.

  2. Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander (born Dec. 10, 1891, London—died June 16, 1969, Slough, Buckinghamshire, Eng.) was a prominent British field marshal in World War II noted for his North African campaigns against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and for his later commands in Italy and western Europe.

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  3. Der Titel wurde am 14. März 1952 für den britischen Feldmarschall Harold Alexander, 1. Viscount Alexander of Tunis geschaffen, anlässlich seines Ausscheidens aus dem Amt des Generalgouverneurs von Kanada. Dieser war im Zweiten Weltkrieg Oberbefehlshaber der britischen Truppen in Nordafrika gewesen. Die Namensgebung des Titels nach ...

  4. Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969), was a senior British Army officer who served with distinction in both the First and the Second World War and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada and the first Lord Lieutenant of Greater London in 1965.

  5. 14. Jan. 2008 · By 1937 he was the youngest major-general in the British army. He led the 1st Division in France in 1940 and the rearguard at Dunkirk, directed the British-Chinese army's retreat from the Japanese invasion of Burma (1942), and from August 1942 was senior army commander in the Mediterranean.