| 词条 | Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell |
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|honorific_prefix=Major The Right Honourable |name= The Earl Wavell |honorific_suffix=MC |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1916|05|11|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_date= {{death date and age|1953|12|24|1916|05|11|df=yes}} |death_place= Thaika, Kenya |placeofburial= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= British Army |serviceyears= 1936–1953 |rank= Major |unit= Black Watch |commands= |battles= Arab revolt in Palestine Second World War
|awards= Military Cross |relations= |laterwork= }} 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. Wavell was killed in the Mau Mau Uprising, and the titles became extinct on his death. Military careerCommissioned a second lieutenant in the Black Watch on 30 January 1936,[1] Wavell's first posting was in the British Mandate for Palestine from 1936 to 1939. Promoted to lieutenant on 30 January 1939, he then fought in the Second World War.[2] He lost his left hand fighting the Japanese in Burma in June 1944 in Operation Thursday where he fought with the Chindits. Evacuated to India he served on his father's staff, his father Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell being the then Viceroy of India. Wavell was promoted to captain on 28 January 1944,[3] and awarded the Military Cross on 23 January 1947.[4] Wavell was promoted to major on 30 January 1949,[5] and succeeded to the Wavell earldom on the death of his father on 24 May 1950. DeathOn 23 December 1953, Major Wavell led a patrol of the Black Watch and Kenyan police in pursuit of a sixty-strong Mau Mau gang that had beheaded a loyal Kikuyu tribesman and then fled. Twenty of them were surrounded in a copse at Thika, 25 miles north of Nairobi. Wavell was shot and killed in the first contact of a 10-hour battle.[6] Earl Wavell is buried in the City Park Cemetery, Nairobi, Block 12, grave 10. His headstone is inscribed with the epitaph: "He found the poetry of Man's endeavour". He is also commemorated by an inscription in the War Cloister at Winchester College, next to the School Cadet Corps Armoury. The 2nd Earl Wavell died unmarried and without issue. The earldom and the viscounty therefore became extinct on his death. References1. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34251|page=671|date=31 January 1936}} {{s-start}}{{s-reg | uk}}{{s-bef | rows=2 | before = Archibald Wavell }}{{s-ttl | title=Earl Wavell2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34594|page=683|date=31 January 1939}} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=36353|supp=y|page=571|date=28 January 1944}} 4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=37861|page=441|date=21 January 1947}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=38557|supp=y|page=1256|date=11 March 1949}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QDRkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_HsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5379,4492203&dq=wavell+1953&hl=en |title=Earl Wavell Dies In 10-Hour Fight With Terrorists |publisher=The Calgary Herald|date=26 December 1953|accessdate=24 August 2014}} | years=1950–1953}}{{s-aft | rows=2 | after = Extinct}}{{s-ttl | title=Viscount Keren | years=1950–1953}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wavell, Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl}} 10 : 1916 births|1953 deaths|British Army officers|British military personnel killed in action|British military personnel of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|British military personnel of the Mau Mau Uprising|British military personnel of World War II|Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom|People educated at Winchester College|Recipients of the Military Cross |
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