MILITARY PERSONNEL

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

1883 - 1950

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Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres. In the Second World War, he served initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, in which role he led British forces to victory over the Italian Army in Eritrea-Abyssinia, western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by Erwin Rommel's Panzer Army Africa in the Western Desert in April 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell has received more than 965,957 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell is the 603rd most popular military personnel (down from 589th in 2019), the 1,081st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,106th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 603 out of 2,058. Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Khalil al-Wazir, Mikhail Alekseyev, Nicolaus von Below, Minamoto no Yorimitsu, and Peucestas. After him are William Stuart-Houston, Ugo Cavallero, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Gongsun Zan, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Otto von Kotzebue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 64. Before him are Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Henri Delaunay, Bernhard Rust, Kenji Doihara, Gusztáv Jány, and Ichirō Hatoyama. After him are Alfredo Casella, Yan Xishan, Fritz Gerlich, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Lauri Kristian Relander, and Bogdan Filov. Among people deceased in 1950, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 45. Before him are Eliel Saarinen, John Rabe, Henry L. Stimson, Emil Abderhalden, Melitta Bentz, and Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. After him are Fevzi Çakmak, Vasil Kolarov, Jan Smuts, Charles Koechlin, Salvatore Giuliano, and Adam Rainer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 1,081 out of 8,785. Before him are William Henry Perkin (1838), Jane Hawking (1944), Chris Patten (1944), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), Paul Grice (1913), and Sacha Baron Cohen (1971). After him are William Stuart-Houston (1911), Dirk Bogarde (1921), Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770), Honor Blackman (1925), Llywelyn the Great (1173), and Ryan Giggs (1973).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ranks 20. Before him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), John Hawkins (1532), Woodes Rogers (1679), and John Hanning Speke (1827). After him are William Stuart-Houston (1911), Harold Lowe (1882), William Bligh (1754), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Bertram Ramsay (1883), and Andrew Parker Bowles (1939).

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