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Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, MC (11 May 1916 – 24 December 1953) was a British Army officer and peer. He was educated at Winchester College and succeeded his father as Earl Wavell and Viscount Keren of Eritrea in 1950.
Vor 3 Tagen · During the Second World War, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell fought a flexible and wide-ranging campaign against the Italians in North Africa. His remarkable triumph over their vastly superior forces was Britain’s first success of the war and paved the way for later victories.
Sir Archibald Wavell. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1. Earl Wavell GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC (* 5. Mai 1883 in Colchester; † 24. Mai 1950 in London) war ein britischer Feldmarschall und Vizekönig von Indien.
The 57-year-old Black Watch Regiment veteran of the South African War and World War I led all British land forces in Egypt, the Sudan, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Cyprus, Aden, Iraq, British Somaliland, and on the shores of the Persian Gulf.
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1883 – Archibald Percival Wavell born in Colchester (5th May). 1901 – Wavell is commissioned into the famous ‘Black Watch’. 1915 – Wounded at 2nd Ypres and marries Eugenie Marie Quirk. 1939 – Wavell given the Middle East Command at the start of WW2.
Archibald Wavell, 1. Earl Wavell war ein erblicher britischer Adelstitel in der Peerage of the United Kingdom . Verleihung und nachgeordnete Titel. Der Titel wurde am 1. Mai 1947 für Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1. Viscount Wavell, geschaffen. Er war von 1943 bis 1947 Vizekönig von Indien.
