Eric Dorman-Smith
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Brigadier Eric Edward "Chink" Dorman-Smith, MC, who later changed his name to Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan, was an Irish officer whose career in the British Army began in the First World War and closed
Eric Dorman-Smith (left) talking with General Sir Alan Brooke at El Alamein, Egypt, August 1942.
Claude Auchinleck
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Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck was a British Indian Army commander who saw active service during both World War I and World War II. A career soldier who spent much of his military caree
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…1931, in July he was appointed brigade major to the 6th Experimental Brigade at Blackdown, under Archibald Wavell, who, along with Richard O'Connor and Claude Auchinleck, were the most significant influences on his career and his most prominent supporters. Wavell aimed to increase the mobility of the army and led exercises…
Portrait by Cecil Beaton, c. 1945
Officers of the 62nd Punjabis in Ismailia, Egypt, 1914. Captain Claude Auchinleck is standing on the far right.
A 1940 portrait of Auchinleck by Reginald Grenville Eves.
Sir Claude Auchinleck as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the Middle East.