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Earl Alexander of Tunis, KG, GCB, GCMG, CSI, GCVO, DSO, MC (* 10. Dezember 1891 in London; † 16. Juni 1969 in Slough) war britischer Feldmarschall. Er kämpfte im Ersten Weltkrieg, im Lettischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg, im West-, im Burma-, im Afrika- und im Italienfeldzug.
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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis. (1891-1969), Field Marshal. Sitter in 47 portraits. Soldier and Governor General of Canada. In the First World War, Alexander commanded a battalion on the Western Front, winning the MC in 1915 and the DSO in 1916. With Montgomery he supervised the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.
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.
Harold Earl Alexander of Tunis britischer Feldmarschall; Verteidigungsminister 1952-1954; Generalgouverneur nach Kanada 1946-1952; hatte im Zweiten Weltkrieg großen Anteil an der Zurückdrängung der deutschen Truppen aus Nordafrika, Sizilien und Süditalien
The British field marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), was the supreme Allied commander of the Mediterranean theater in World War II. He was governor general of Canada from 1946 to 1952 and British minister of defense from 1952 to 1954.
