Robert Brooke-Popham1941
Singapore falls to the Japanese, takes responsibility & is removed from office
Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Singapore falls to the Japanese, takes responsibility & is removed from office
Dismissed from the Eighth Army by Auchinleck
Replaced by Lieutenant General Alexander
Advised that he is being relieved of his command of the Eighth Army
Releived of Command of the Eighth Army by Auchinleck after the fall of Tobruk
Dismissed due to a personality clash with Mountbatten
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