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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
On 19th June, 1943, Wavell became viceroy of Burma and the following month was raised to the peerage as the 1st Earl of Cyrenaica. One of his first acts was to free Congress leaders from prison. He also worked hard at trying to resolve the Hundu-Moslem differences.
Jul 2, 2017 · Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was born on 5 May 1883. 1 He was the son of Maj.-Gen. Archibald Graham Wavell and Lillie Percival. 3,4 He married Eugenie Marie Quirk, daughter of Colonel J. O. Quirk, on 22 April 1915. 4 He died on 24 May 1950 at age 67. 1
