Word: auchinleck
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British Army Commander in Chief in India was tall, handsome General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 61, K.C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. Top Royal Air Force Commander in that area was his friend Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, 53, K.C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C. Both Sir Claude and Sir Richard had complex, varying command relations with Mountbatten, Stilwell, Wavell, and with each other...
Last week Sir Claude, living in a bachelor flat near Buckingham Palace, went down to Lewes, Sussex, for a divorce. He named Sir Richard as corespondent, charging adultery with Lady Auchinleck. The judge's decree broke up the Auchinleck marriage after 24 years. Apparently vivacious, bright-eyed Lady Jessie, like everyone else in the CBI area, had become confused over the relationships...
...still his. The Wehrmacht rode that advantage for 15 months, but the ride was no longer easy. The Wehrmacht now had to skimp. The results showed clearly in the Mediterranean: the Afrika Korps recovered Italian Cyrenaica but lacked enough power to crush beseiged Tobruk; then lost Cyrenaica again to Auchinleck; finally, reinforced, overran the British army to push across Egypt to El Alamein. At that point only a decimated British army which had lost most of its equipment stood between Rommel and Cairo...
...Other Irishmen among Britain's top commanders: Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke...
...Africa, Alexander replaced Auchinleck as commander of the British Middle East Forces when Rommel was battering at the gates of Alexandria. He was at a relief job again. Cool as a cucumber in a gin sling and twice as impersonal, he planned and mounted the great attack which General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery brilliantly executed-and Rommel was rolled all the way back to Tripolitania...