Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

2026· 2 entries

Aug 23, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“British opinion was, I believe, shaken by the apparent apathy of the people of Malaya and Burma to the Japanese invasion. British administrators had, it seemed, failed to inspire affection for the British connection, or even contentment, in those countries. The journalistic spotlight was rapidly shifted to India, where it was easy to discover poverty, ignorance, disease and dirt on a gigantic scale”

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Aug 23, 2026Documented record76% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

“Lord Halifax is ready/To take off for Berlin/And if he gives them Danzig/We might just save our skin/Why should we do the fighting?/The Jews will stand to gain/We are the ones who”

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1987· 1 entry

1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

She died, as the Countess Wavell, on 11 October 1987, aged 100 years.

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1950· 2 entries

May 24, 1950Documented record86% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Died 1950-05-24.

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c. 1950Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote75% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

“No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.”

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1949· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1949Documented record84% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Career landmark: Lord Lieutenant of the County of London (1949–1950).

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1948· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1948Documented record84% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Career landmark: Constable of the Tower (1948–1950).

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1947· 2 entries

1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Wavell returned to England and was made High Steward of Colchester

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1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Attlee lost confidence in Wavell and replaced him with Lord Mountbatten of Burma

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1944· 2 entries

1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Tensions were increased when the Japanese finally invaded India

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1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The publication of Wavell's poetry collection, Other Men's Flowers caused a sensation with the public being much taken with the idea of a soldier who also a poet

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1943· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1943Documented record84% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Career landmark: Governor-General of India (1943–1947).

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1943Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Wavell was the obvious choice for the role, but Churchill wanted to give that post to Admiral Louis Mountbatten instead

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1942· 2 entries

1942Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Wavell brought Orde Wingate to India to launch the first Chindit raid into Burma, which began on 8 February 1943

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1942Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Of Dominion status for India, which he described as "

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1941· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1941Documented record76% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

“s plans to bomb the Romanian Ploesti oil fields as the Germans had constructed a powerful air defence system around them. Wavell stated that air defence system of radar stations, searchlights, flak batteries, and fighter squadrons would make it almost impossible to bomb the oil fields. On 13 January 1941, Wavell on Churchill”

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1936· 1 entry

1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

As his greatest accomplishment, and the liberation of Ethiopia in 1941 was a great blow to the prestige of the Fascist regime

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1926· 1 entry

1926Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Wavell continued to hold GSO1 appointments, latterly in the 3rd Infantry Division, until July 1930 when he was given command of 6th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier

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1916· 2 entries

1916Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

And that he was a very brave, tough soldier

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Jan 1, 1916Documented record76% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

“I want you to go to Jerusalem and relieve Baghdad”

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1911· 1 entry

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Spent a year as a military observer with the Russian Army to learn Russian, returning to his regiment in December of that year

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1903· 1 entry

1903Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Was transferred to join the battalion in India and, having been promoted to lieutenant on 13 August 1904, he fought in the Bazar Valley Campaign of February 1908

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1883· 1 entry

May 5, 1883Documented record86% confidence

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Born 1883-05-05.

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