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General Sir Archibald James Murray, GCB, GCMG, CVO, DSO (23 April 1860 – 21 January 1945) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was chief of staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914 but appears to have suffered a physical breakdown in the retreat from Mons ...
30 de abr. de 2018 · Born 23 April 1860 in Kingsclere, Great Britain. Died 21 January 1945 in Reigate, Great Britain. Sir Archibald James Murray was Chief of the Imperial General Staff from September 1915 to December 1915 and Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from March 1916 to June 1917.
Who's Who - Sir Archibald Murray. Sir Archibald Murray (1860-1945), after a brief spell as Chief of Staff to Sir John French, served in command of British forces in Palestine and the Middle East during World War One.
After two battles at Gaza and 10,000 casualties, British High Command removed Archibald Murray as commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), replacing him with Edmund Allenby, who had recently been promoted to General.
After successfully defending the canal, British Empire forces went on the offensive, crossing into the Sinai Peninsula. Success there led General Sir Archibald Murray to press the advantage by invading Palestine. However, two attacks on Ottoman-held Gaza in March-April 1917 failed, and Murray was replaced by General Sir Edmund Allenby.
Sinai. Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray, commander of the newly formed Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), now decided to push the Turks out of the Sinai peninsula. This would reduce the threat to the canal and force them to defend their own territory in southern Palestine. During Spring 1916, the EEF cut Turkish routes to the canal.
Sir Archibald Murray’s British troops at last started a massive advance in December 1916 and captured some Turkish outposts on the northeastern edge of the Sinai Desert but made a pusillanimous withdrawal from Gaza in March 1917 at the very moment when the Turks were… Read More.
