Richard Peirse
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, served as a senior Royal Air Force commander.
Peirse broadcasting over the radio during the Second World War
Portrait of Peirse commissioned by the Ministry of Information circa 1943
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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…the time. The reason for the abrupt termination of his career lay in his affair with Lady (Jessie) Auchinleck, the wife of his friend, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, the Commander in Chief India. The affair became known to Mountbatten in early 1944, and he passed the information to the Chief of the RAF, Sir Charles…
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.