• Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army.
  • Archibald Percival Wavell, the son of Maj. ... Archibald Graham Wavell, was born on May 5, 1883, at Colchester.
  • During the Second World War, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell fought a flexible and wide-ranging campaign against the Italians in North Africa.
  • General Sir Archibald Wavell, Allied Supreme Commander of the A.B.D.A. Area, to U.K. War Office. Repeated to Commonwealth Government.
  • British Army Field Marshal Archibald Wavell commanded Commonwealth Troops in the Desert War and in the China-Burma-India Theater.
  • Archibald Percival Wavell (1883-1950) is an enigmatic figure among Churchill’s senior military men during the Second World War.
  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell". Encyclopedia Britannica , 20 May.
  • Archibald Wavell attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and served in the second Boer War, as well as in India.
  • Born in 1883, General Archibald Wavell was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. At Sandhurst he came first in his class and joined the army in 1901.