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
Winchester Cathedral, memorial plaques for the 2nd Earl Wavell (died 1953) and his father, Field Marshal 1st Earl Wavell (died 1950).
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
Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell
…Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, MC (11 May 1916 – 24 December 1953) was a British Army officer and peer. The son of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, he was educated at Winchester College. Wavell succeeded his father in 1950, but was killed three years later in the Mau Mau Uprising, and the titles…
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