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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.
May 20, 2024 · Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a British field marshal and government administrator whose victories against the Italians in North Africa during the early part of World War II were offset by his inability to defeat the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel (1941) and his
Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell led an imaginative and flexible campaign against the Italians in North Africa. His triumph over their vastly superior forces was Britain’s first success of the war and paved the way for later victories.
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.
Elevated to the peerage as 1st Earl Wavell in 1943, he served in the House of Lords until his death around seven years later. His memorial in Winchester Cathedral proclaims: ‘And glory is the least of things that follow this man home.
Feb 25, 2018 · Her pioneering biography, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman, provides rare insights into that crucial era of 1943-1947 during which Field Marshall Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, served as...
May 21, 2018 · The English general, statesman, and writer Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950), is best known for his devastating victories over the Italians in 1940 and 1941. Archibald Percival Wavell, the son of Maj. Gen. Archibald Graham Wavell, was born on May 5, 1883, at Colchester.
Jul 22, 2021 · Archibald Percival Wavell (1883-1950) is an enigmatic figure among Churchill’s senior military men during the Second World War. Unlike Brooke, Alexander and Montgomery, who rose to the top during the war, Wavell was one of the British Army’s most senior generals when it began.
"His Excellent Field Marshal The Right Honourable Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, C.C.G. G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., C.M.G., M.C., performed outstanding service as Viceroy of India during the period 20 October 1943 to 17 May 1945.
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell. Field-Marshal; as commander of British forces in the Middle East (1939-41), directed the overwhelming defeat of the Italians in North Africa; Commander-in-Chief, India (1941); Supreme Commander, South-West Pacific (1941-3); Viceroy of India (1943-7).
