Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Wavell was the obvious choice for the role, but Churchill wanted to give that post to Admiral Louis Mountbatten instead
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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Wavell was the obvious choice for the role, but Churchill wanted to give that post to Admiral Louis Mountbatten instead
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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