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Field Marshal

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1940–1944Date range
6Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1940

Ironside Ironside, 1st1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Field Marshal

1941

Claude John Eyre Auchinleck1941

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Commander in Chief

1942

Claude John Eyre AuchinleckJuly 1942

Tobruk · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Commander of the Eighth Army after the fall of Tobruk

1943

Vereker Gort, 6th1943

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Field Marshal

Archibald Wavell Wavell, 1st1943

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Field Marshal

1944

Alan Francis Brooke Brooke, 1st1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Field Marshal

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Appointed Field Marshal

Names involved

Alan Francis Brooke Brooke, 1stArchibald Wavell Wavell, 1stBernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stClaude John Eyre AuchinleckIronside Ironside, 1stVereker Gort, 6th

Provenance

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