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	Claude Auchinleck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claude Auchinleck was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he developed a love of the country and an affinity for the ordinary soldiers under his command.
		Auchinleck withdrew his forces 400km back into Egypt; Tobruk (which was of great political significance to Winston Churchill but of limited military importance to Auchinleck) fell on 21 June.
		Auchinleck's reputation (along with that of many other officers) subsequently suffered unfairly at the hands of the Montgomery publicity machine, a disservice that was repeated by Churchill in his own war memoirs.
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	Claude Auchinleck
		During World War II Auchinleck was given command of the Allied forces in Norway in May 1940.
		Auchinleck withdrew his forces 400km back into Egypt; Tobruk fell on 21 June but the German/Italian advance was halted at the First Battle of El Alamein by the Eighth Army.
		Auchinleck's reputation subsequently suffered unfairly at the hands of the Montgomery publicity machine: Montgomery launched his El Alamein offensive even later than the date proposed by Auchinleck while still in command.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/c/cl/claude_auchinleck.html (365 words)

	Claude Auchinleck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck was a career soldier who spent of his military career in India where he developed a love of country and an affinity for the ordinary under his command.
		Early in World War II Auchinleck was command of the Allied forces in Norway in May 1940 a military operation that was doomed fail.
		Auchinleck was by Churchill in August 1942 almost certainly he refused to be bullied by Churchill ordering a major offensive before he and troops were properly prepared.
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	Claude Auchinleck
		Claude Auchinleck was born in 1884 and died in 1981.
		In 1943, Auchinleck was made commander-in-chief of the forces in India and was promoted to field marshall.
		Auchinleck resigned and retired to Marrakech in North Africa.
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	Claude Auchinleck
		Claude Auchinleck, was born in Ulster on 21st July, 1884.
		Auchinleck returned to Britain on the outbreak of the Second World War and on 7th May, 1940, he was sent to command 25,000 British, French and Polish troops in Norway.
		Auchinleck was unassigned for almost a year but on 20th June, 1943, he replaced Archibald Wavell as commander in chief of the British Army in India.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWauchinleck.htm (1927 words)

	Claude Auchinleck - Wikipedia
		Feltmarskalk Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE (født 21.
		Auchinleck overtok kommandoen mens de britiske styrkene sto inne i Libya ved Al Agheila (januar 1942) men de ble tvunget på retrett tilbake til Egypt av Rommels styrker.
		Auchinleck ble senere rakket mye ned på av Montgomery og Churchill.
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	First Battle of El Alamein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck attacked again on July 10 at in the north and over one thousand prisoners were taken.
		Auchinleck then attacked again in the centre at the Ruweisat Ridge in two battles (the First and Second Battles of Ruweisat on July 14 and July 21).
		The Eighth Army was exhausted, and by July 31 Auchinleck ordered an end to offensive operations and the strengthening of the defences to meet a major counter-offensive.
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	Claude Auchinleck
		Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE The Auk, (June 21 1884 - 1981) was a British army commander during World War II.
		Auchinleck withdrew his forces 400km back into Egypt; Tobruk (which was of great political significance to Churchill but of limited military importance to Auchinleck) fell on 21 June.
		Churchill offered Auchinleck command of Allied Forces in Persia and the Middle East (this having been hived off Alexander's command), but the Auk declined this post.
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	Clan Auchinleck
		The barony of Auchinleck is in Ayrshire, and in 1300 the Laird of Auchinleck is reputed to have followed Sir William Wallace to Glasgow where he fought and slew the Northumbrian Earl Percy.
		The Angus Auchinlecks held the office of Hereditary armour bearers to the Earls of Crawford and lived in the tower known as Affleck near the village of Monikie.
		General Sir Claude Auchinleck was commander in chief in India in 1941 when Winston Churchill assigned him to lead the Allied offensive in the western desert of Egypt and India.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Auchinleck Sir Claude John Eyre
		Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre (1884-1981), English field marshal.
		Auchinleck was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, after which he...
		The coastal hinterland of Western Australia was mapped by Sir George Grey (1837-1840) and by Edward John Eyre.
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	Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre @AryanaSite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, after which he joined the 62nd Punjab Regiment.
		Returning to India, Auchinleck distinguished himself in 1933 in action against Afghan tribesmen on the north-west frontier.
		Auchinleck was replaced by General Alexander in 1942.
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	First Battle of El Alamein - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Allied Eighth Army under General Claude Auchinleck had retreated from Mersa Matruh to the Alamein Line, a forty mile (60 km) gap between El Alamein and the Qattara Depression, in Egypt.
		Auchinleck attacked again on July 10 at Tel el Eisa in the north and over one thousand prisoners were taken.
		Auchinleck then attacked again in the centre at the Ruweisat Ridge in two battles - the First and Second Battles of Ruweisat on July 14 and July 21.
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	Claude Auchinleck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Initial success at El Agheila (January 1942) was followed by defeat by Colonel-General (later Field Marshal) Erwin (German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944)) Rommel at Bir Hacheim (June 1942).
		Auchinleck withdrew his forces 400km back into Egypt; (Click link for more info and facts about Tobruk) Tobruk (which was of great political significance to (British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)) Winston Churchill but of limited military importance to Auchinleck) fell on 21 June.
		Instead he returned to India, where he spent almost a year "unemployed" before in 1943 becoming again C-in-C of the Indian Army, Wavell meanwhile having been appointed (Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign) Viceroy.
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	Claude Auchinleck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Claude Auchinleck era un soldado de la carrera que pasó mucha de su carrera militar en la India, en donde él desarrolló un amor del país y de una afinidad para los soldados ordinarios bajo su comando.
		Auchinleck retiró sus fuerzas los 400km nuevamente dentro de Egipto; Tobruk (que era de gran significación política a Winston Churchill pero de importancia militar limitada a Auchinleck) cayó el 21 de de junio.
		Auchinleck era sacked por Churchill en agosto de 1942, casi ciertamente porque él rechazó bullied por Churchill en pedir una ofensiva importante antes de que él y sus tropas fueran preparados correctamente.
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	Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck had distinguished himself as a regimental officer of the Indian Army in Mesopatamia during World War I and subsequently on the Northwest Frontier.
		By 1939 he was one of the most senior and distinguished officers of the Indian Army and, against established practice, was brought from it to command 4th Corps of the British Army at home.
		By July 1942 Auchinleck had sufficiently got the measure of things to inflict on Rommel his first serious defeat in the battle now generally known as First Alamein.
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	Sheldon Family History
		Sheldon was the official Indian Army war artist whom the legendary Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck "discovered" waiting to be invalided from a Karachi hospital back to Britain in 1943.
		Auchinleck, whose distinguished family had played a leading role in Scottish history for more than 200 years, had the rank of General at the time and C-in-C India.
		This request was swiftly thwarted by Auchinleck, who saw it as a dangerous move by the Supremo to project further his charismatic frontline image.
	www.nsheldon.co.uk /family/fame.htm (532 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Auchinleck Sir Claude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck served an illustrious military career, spanning two world wars.
		Claude, Albert (1899-1983), Belgian-born American cell biologist and winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries...
		In modern-day Britain, knighthood is an honor conferred by the monarch on both men and women in recognition of outstanding personal merit.
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	Auchinleck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the World War II Field Marshal see Sir Claude Auchinleck.
		Auchinleck (sometimes pronounced Affleck) is a town with a population of ca.
		Near the city is Auchinleck House, sometime home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auchinleck (100 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Auchinleck Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Auchinleck suffered a series of defeats in North Africa at the hands of Rommel, culminating in the fall of Tobruk, before the defensive line was stabilized at the First Battle of El Alamein.
		Auchinleck's papers include typescript and autograph letters, cipher messages, telegrams, despatches, reports, military orders, memoranda, and the texts of speeches by Auchinleck.
		The collection is of central importance for students of military history, particularly the Desert Campaign, and for research into the final years of British rule in India, the rise of the nationalist independence movement, the transfer of power from Britain to India, and the formation of Pakistan.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/auchin (300 words)

	MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Auchinleck Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Angus Auchinlecks held the office of hereditary armour bearers to the Earls of Crawford and lived in the substantial tower known as Affleck near the village of Monikie.
		General Sir Claude Auchinleck was commander-in-chief in India in 1941 when Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, assigned him to lead the Allied offensive in the western desert of Egypt and India.
		The battle was indecisive, and Auchinleck was replaced by Bernard, later Field Marshal, Montgomery, who went on to lead the Eighth Army in a second attack on El Alamein in October, breaking Rommel’s Afrika Korps and securing an important victory for the Allies at a crucial time in the war.
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	elalamein.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		As a result, General Claude Auchinleck was afforded just suffifient time to prepare another line - and a real one this time - seventy miles west of Alexandria.
		Auchinleck estimated that two reinforced armoured divisions and two well-sited infantry divisions could hold this position against superior numbers.
		The available troops were split into battle groups, and Auchinleck massed his artillery under Army HQ, and did what he could to create 4th Light Armoured Brigade.
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	Battle of Gazala explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The combatants on the Axis side were the Africa Korps of Nazi Germany and several Italian units, commanded by Colonel-General Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox"; the Allied forces were the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Claude Auchinleck.
		Following Rommel's attack in January 1942, the Allies had retreated across Libya to a strong position on a line between the port of Tobruk on the Mediterranean coast to the north, and the town of Bir Hacheim to the south.
		On 14 June Auchinleck retreated east to a strong position on the Alamein Line on the border of Egypt, leaving troops to defend Tobruk, as Archibald Wavell had done in April 1941.
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	Learn more about Claude Auchinleck in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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		Born in Aldershot and a graduate of Sandhurst he was a career soldier.
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	Exordio - Segunda Guerra Mundial - General Claude Auchinleck
		Una vez al frente de Auchinleck le criticó su falta de decisión para arremeter con todo y expulsar a los alemanes de África, decidiendo reemplazar a Auchinleck por el General William Gott, quien falleció en un accidente mientras viajaba a Egipto.
		Durante cerca de una año el General Auchinleck no fue asignado a ningún cargo hasta el 20 de junio de 1943 cuando Churchill lo llamó para reemplazar al General Wavell como Comandante en jefe de las Fuerzas Británicas en India.
		Auchinleck abandonó India antes de su independencia y regresó a Londres donde ocupó varios cargos administrativos hasta su retiro en 1968 cuando pasó a la vida civil en Marrakech.
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	Sunday Times
		Claude John Eyre Auchinleck was born at Aldershot on 21 June 1884, the son of a colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery.
		In January 1941 Auchinleck was sent to India, with the rank of General and a knighthood to succeed General Cassels as Commander in Chief of the Indian Army.
		Auchinleck, whose relations with Winston Churchill had never been easy, was summarily dismissed as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, in August 1942.
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