Wafted to India
Richard Gott: Unlucky Wavell, 5 October 2006
Wavell: Soldier and Statesman
by Victoria Schofield.
Murray, 512 pp., £30, March 2006,0 7195 6320 8 Show More
by Victoria Schofield.
Murray, 512 pp., £30, March 2006,
“... obituary when he was killed in Kenya in 1953 during the Mau-Mau rebellion. William ‘Strafer’ Gott, my father’s cousin, was a general in the Western Desert under Wavell, appointed by Churchill to run the Eighth Army in 1942 and then immediately killed on his way to Cairo (and replaced by Bernard Montgomery). Penderel Moon, my mother’s brother, a ... ”