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You're Top Poster: #3   | 1st Earl Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell Biography (1883–1950) 1st Earl Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell Biography (1883–1950) India British field marshal, born in Colchester, Essex, S England, UK. He studied at Winchester College and Sandhurst Military Academy, served in South Africa and India, became Allenby's chief-of-staff in Palestine, and in 1939 was given the Middle East command. He defeated the Italians in N Africa, but failed against Rommel, and in 1941 was transferred to[COLOR=red ! important][COLOR=red ! important][/color][/color] where he became viceroy, and was made field marshal and viscount (1943). He was later created an earl (1947), and held the posts of Constable of the Tower (1948) and Lord-Lieutenant of London (1949).
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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