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Hace 1 día · Beginning as early as December 1942, high-ranking government officials and military officers (including John Herbert, the Governor of Bengal; Viceroy Linlithgow; Leo Amery the Secretary of State for India; General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, and Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of ...
Hace 20 horas · Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States) 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 ...
Hace 4 días · Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, who became Supreme Commander of both India and Pakistan after Partition reported to Whitehall on 28th September 1947: ‘I have no hesitation whatever in affirming that the present India Cabinet are implacably determined to do all in their power to prevent the establishment of the Dominion of ...
Hace 2 días · Charles being presented with his first richly-deserved Victoria Cross, on November 4th, 1941, by his then-Commander-in-Chief in North Africa – then-General Claude Auchinleck DSO of the British Army.
Hace 3 días · Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, 'The Auk' as his men called him, was appointed Commander in Chief Middle East after Churchill sacked his predecessor Archibald Wavell in 1941. Operation 'Crusader' was launched shortly thereafter which drove Rommel back from the Egyptian frontier and deep into Libya but the Eighth Army suffered ...
Hace 5 días · Promoted to British field marshal in 1950, he clashed with the ambitions of generals Douglas MacArthur and Claude Auchinleck over WWII affairs in the Pacific.
Hace 2 días · Following the turmoil of in 1947, the Durand Cup was accidentally discovered in the office of Commander-in-Chief Sir Claude Auchinleck and efforts were made in order to shift the tournament to the newly formed Pakistan, but was strongly resisted by the Defence Secretary H.M. Patel, who acquired and stored it in the State Bank of ...
