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Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, MC (11 May 1916 – 24 December 1953) was a British Army officer and peer. He was educated at Winchester College and succeeded his father as Earl Wavell and Viscount Keren of Eritrea in 1950.
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During the Second World War, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell fought a flexible and wide-ranging campaign against the Italians in North Africa. His remarkable triumph over their vastly superior forces was Britain’s first success of the war and paved the way for later victories.
Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell was both praised and maligned during his tenure as a senior Allied commander in World War II. As General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps seized the initiative in the Western Desert, British forces were bundled back to the Egyptian frontier and three generals were taken prisoner.
Earl Wavell was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1947 for Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India from 1943 to 1947.
An eventful WW1 had also seen Wavell married in 1915 to Eugenie Marie Quirk, a marriage bestowing four children including another Archibald Wavell (1916-53), the 2nd Earl, who followed his father as an Army officer and peer but was sadly killed during the Kenya Emergency in 1953 aged just 37.
