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Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.
Learn about the life and career of Edward L. Spears, a soldier and diplomat who served as Churchill's liaison to France during the darkest days of World War II. Read how he witnessed the German invasion, the Dunkirk evacuation, and the fall of France in 1940.
Das Gefecht von Dakar, mitunter auch als Operation Menace bezeichnet, war der erfolglose Versuch der Alliierten im September 1940, den strategisch wichtigen Hafen Dakar in Französisch-Westafrika unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen.
Edward Spears (born November 29, 1982) is an Indigenous American actor. He is a member of the Kul Wičaša Oyate Lakota from the Lower Brulé Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
10. März 2014 · A collection of interviews with World War One veterans and civilians filmed in the 1960s. Edward Louis Spears, a liaison officer between senior French and British forces.
- Sandra Gorel
- Detlef Siebert
- Edward Louis Spears
- July 5, 2017
Edward Louis Spears was born in Paris on 7th August, 1886, the only son and elder child of Charles McCarthy Spears (1858–1912), commission agent, and his wife, Marguerite Melicent Hack (1864–1927). He was educated privately, and at a boarding-school in Neuwied, Germany (1901–2). Spears joined the 8th Hussars in 1906 and served in India.
1. Aug. 2017 · Major General Sir Edward Spears described him as “a simple, straight-forward, but not very clever man.” (Sebag-Montefiore, 2007).
