Claude Auchinleck (HM6)

Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (* June 21st, 1884 in Aldershot), also nicknamed The Auk, is a Lieutenant-General of the .
Since 1903, he's been serving in the British-Indian Army, where he learnt Punjabi. In the First World War, he fought in 1915 in the defense of the against Ottoman Troops and later participated in the Mesopotamia campaign.
When started, he was summoned in 1940 to and promoted to Lieutenant-General. In May 1940, he got the command over the Allied forces in . After the Fall of Norway, there's the question which command to give him next.
In 1921, he married Jessie Stewart (* 1900), who was nicknamed in India "the little American girl". They have no Kids.
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