Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell 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
Wavell in 1936
Wavell (right) meets Lt. General Edward Quinan, commander of British and Indian Army forces in Iraq in April 1941.
Wavell at his desk in Delhi during the Second World War
Wavell (right) with Brooke-Popham in WW II
Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, MC was a British Army officer and peer. The son of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, he was educated at Winchester College. Wavell s
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
…Children: Archibald John Arthur Wavell, later 2nd Earl Wavell, b. 11 May 1916; d. 24 December 1953, killed in Kenya, in an action against Mau Mau rebels. Since he was unmarried and without issue, the titles became…
Winchester Cathedral, memorial plaques for the 2nd Earl Wavell (died 1953) and his father, Field Marshal 1st Earl Wavell (died 1950).