Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (died 1981)

Claude Auchinleck

British field marshal (1884–1981)

Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, was a British Indian Army commander who saw active service during the world wars. A career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, he rose to become commander-in-chief of the Indian Army by early 1941 during the…