Wavell ( right ) with Robert Brooke-Popham | Brooke-Popham in WW II

Wavell as Viceroy of India ( centre ), with the C-in-C of the British Indian Army | Indian Army Claude Auchinleck | Auchinleck ( right ) and Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Montgomery.

Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana ( right ), Premier of the Punjab region | Punjab, with Sikh leader Master Tara Singh ( centre ), and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League at the Simla Conference called by viceroy Lord Wavell in June 1945.

* Eugenie Pamela Wavell, b. 2 December 1918, married 14 March 1942 Lt Col A F W Humphrys MBE.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

In 1938, he organised an amphibious combined operations landing exercise that impressed the new commander-in-chief, Southern Command, General Wavell.

Counterattacks of British Allied forces from Egypt, commanded by Wavell and their successful two-month campaign in ( Tobruk, Benghazi, El Agheila ), and the counteroffensives under Rommel in 1940-43, all took place during World War II.

* 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general ( d. 1950 )

* May 5 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal ( d. 1950 )

Planning progressed to the point that Corps-size drops were demonstrated to foreign observers, including the British Military Attache Archibald Wavell, in the Kiev military district maneuvers of 1935.

When the League retracted its approval of the 16 May plan, the viceroy Lord Wavell invited the Congress to form the government.

His skills of leadership and practical judgement were hailed by British statesmen — his opponents in the freedom struggle — such as Lord Wavell, Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and Mountbatten.

( In the event, no serving soldier was appointed Viceroy until Archibald Wavell in 1943.

What is believed to be the first adaptive routing network of computers, using link-state routing as its heart, was designed and implemented during 1976-77 by a team from Plessey Radar led by Bernard J Harris ; the project was for " Wavell "-a system of computer command and control for the British Army.

Early in August, General Archibald Wavell was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, and he sent reinforcements which had been sought by Wilson, initially the Indian 4th Infantry Division and advanced elements of 6th Australian Division and, as the build up at Mersa Matruh continued, Richard O ' Connor and his staff at 7th Infantry Division in Palestine were moved to Egypt to reinforce Wilson's command structure there.

After a conference with Eden and Wavell in October and rejecting Wavell's suggestion for a two-pronged attack, Wilson launched Operation Compass on 7 December 1940.

On 22 February 1941 within a few days of taking up this duty, he met with Wavell, Eden and Dill who were seeking a senior commander to lead reinforcements to Greece.

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC ( 5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950 ) was a British field marshal and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during the Second World War.

Wavell was born in Colchester but spent much of his childhood in India.

Wavell's father ( Archibald Graham Wavell ) was a major-general in the British Army and Wavell followed his father's career choice.

Wavell attended the preparatory boarding school Summer Fields, at Oxford, Winchester College, where he was a scholar, seventh on the roll, and Sandhurst.

After graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Wavell was commissioned on 8 May 1901 into the Black Watch and fought in the Second Boer War.

In March 1913 Wavell was promoted to captain.

Wavell was working as a staff officer when the First World War began.

On 4 May, Freyberg sent a message to the British commander in the Middle East, General Archibald Wavell, requesting the evacuation of about 10, 000 personnel who did not have weapons and had " little or no employment other than getting into trouble with the civil population ".

In October 1916 Wavell was graded General Staff Officer Grade 1 ( GSO1 ) as an acting lieutenant colonel, and was then assigned as a liaison officer to the Russian Army in the Caucasus.

In March 1918 Wavell was made a temporary brigadier general and returned to Palestine where he served as the brigadier general of the General Staff ( BGGS ) with XX Corps, part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by Sir Edmund Allenby, of whom he was later to write a biography.

In early June Wavell sent a force under General Wilson to invade Syria and Lebanon, responding to the help given by the Vichy France authorities there to the Iraq Government during the Anglo-Iraqi War.

* July 1939 – 1941: Lieutenant-General ( Local General ) Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, KCB, CMG, MC

* 1941 – January 1943: His Excellency General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, GCB, CMG, MC

According to Wavell and McGuirk, Western Force was first led by General Wallace and later by General Hodgson.

He requested an interview with General Wavell and asked permission to create a mobile scouting force.

At that point, the Commander-in-Chief Middle East General Sir Archibald Wavell ordered the 4th Indian Division withdrawn to spearhead the invasion of Italian East Africa.

General Archibald Wavell instructed Morshead to hold the fortress for eight weeks, while the remaining forces reorganised and mounted a relief mission.

After a few more unproductive months in which he again offered his resignation-which Auchinleck tore up-and he worked on a proposal for a Higher Command School with Smuts, he was offered, on 8 May, a choice of major-general positions: an unspecified role under Wavell in India or Deputy Chief of the General Staff in Cairo.

To secure Iraq, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered General Archibald Wavell to protect the air base at Habbaniya.

In January 1941, General Archibald Wavell created MI9, a force for subterfuge and counterintelligence.

The hotel became a meeting place for war leaders: Winston Churchill often took his cabinet to lunch at the hotel, Lord Mountbatten, Charles de Gaulle, Jan Masaryk and General Wavell were among the regular Grill Room diners, and the hotel's air-raid shelters were " the smartest in London ".

By January the following year, General Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief, MEF was told by Eden that " Your Assistant Director Army Postal Services may forthwith introduce an Air Mail Letter Card Service for the Middle East.

On Wingate's arrival in March 1942 in the Far East, he was appointed colonel once more by General Wavell, and was ordered to organise guerrilla units to fight behind Japanese lines.

Short of men, General Archibald Wavell ( the Commander-in-Chief of the British Middle East Command ) needed all of the local support he could find.

In attendance were Emperor Selassie, South African General Jan Smuts ( who held an advisory brief for the region with Winston Churchill ), the Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, Archibald Wavell and his senior military commanders in East Africa, Lieutenant-General Platt and Lieutenant-General Cunningham.

The failure of this operation led to the replacement of British General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East, by Claude Auchinleck.