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In July, he was granted the temporary rank of captain and became GSO3 at the Directorate of Military Training. In April 1912 he became a General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3) in the Russian Section of the War Office. In 1911, he spent a year as a military observer with the Russian Army to learn Russian, returning to his regiment in December of that year. He was one of only two in his class to graduate with an A grade. In January 1909 was seconded from his regiment to be a student at the Staff College. In 1903 he 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. Wavell was ill, and did not immediately join the battalion as it transferred to British India in October that year he instead left Cape Town for England on the SS Simla at the same time. The battalion stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which formally ended in June 1902 after the Peace of Vereeniging. Early career ДЄfter graduating from Sandhurst, Wavell was commissioned into the British Army on as a second lieutenant in the Black Watch, and joined the 2nd battalion of his regiment in South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War. Fearon, had advised his father that there was no need to send him into the Army as he had 'sufficient ability to make his way in other walks of life'. He served as Commander-in-Chief, India, from July 1941 until June 1943 (apart from a brief tour as Commander of ABDACOM) and then served as Viceroy of India until his retirement in February 1947.Д«orn the son of Archibald Graham Wavell (who later became a major-general in the British Army and military commander of Johannesburg after its capture during the Second Boer War ) and Lillie Wavell (nГ©e Percival), Wavell attended Eaton House, followed by the leading preparatory boarding school Summer Fields near Oxford, Winchester College, where he was a scholar, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served in the Second World War, initially as Commander-in-Chief Middle East, in which role he led British forces to victory over the Italians in western Egypt and eastern Libya during Operation Compass in December 1940, only to be defeated by the German Army in the Western Desert in April 1941. 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.

#LORDS OF THE FALLEN THE COMMANDER PC#

Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States)ДЇield Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, KStJ, PC ( вЂ“ ) was a senior officer of the British Army.Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands).Commander of the Order of the Seal of Solomon (Ethiopia).Grand Cross of the Order of George I with Swords (Greece).Commander of the Legion of Honour (France).

Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class with Swords (Russia).

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire.

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India.

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

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