This last is purely one sonnet, by Wavell, followed by a brief note about that sonnet and a final paragraph by his son ending with a soldier’s poem. On 15 June 1943, Churchill invited Wavell to dinner and offered him the Viceroyalty of India in succession to Linlithgow. Wavell ( not a Lord when he put this collection together in 1943) said in his introduction that the poems were noted down as favourites by him and with the help of his family in reminding him of their favourites he would read and recite for them. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres. In July 1939, he was named as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Middle East Command with the local rank of full general.

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In 1903 he was transferred to join the battalion in India and, having been promoted to lieutenant on 13 August 1904, [8] he fought in the Bazar Valley Campaign of February 1908. Listening the other day to these opinions ping-ponging their way around a radio studio, far removed from the blood and sand, I thought of poor Lord Wavell, the penultimate viceroy of India, struggling in Delhi to divine the desires of his political masters in London. Kipling, Browning and Chesterton have the largest numbers of poems included by far and the rest cover a broad range of poetry through the ages.Eventually, in 1947, Attlee lost confidence in Wavell and replaced him with Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Having fallen back in front of Italian advances from their colonies Libya and Eritrea towards (respectively) Egypt and Ethiopia, Wavell mounted successful offensives into Libya ( Operation Compass) in December 1940 and Eritrea and Ethiopia in January 1941.

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Compston took the title, Other Men's Flowers, from an anthology of wartime poetry compiled by Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell (1883-1950) of the same title (published 1944). By the end of the year, although still on half pay, Wavell had been designated to command 2nd Division and appointed a CB. The full version of this article is only available to subscribers to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly. In 1961, 11 years after his death, TS Eliot wrote, "I do not pretend to be a judge of Wavell as a soldier .And there is the fractious and fracturing nature of Iraq, a country poised on the brink of division into three parts, just as India was divided into two. To continue reading, please sign in or take out a subscription to the quarterly magazine for yourself or as a gift for a fellow booklover. We have on our shelves a copy of the attractively produced ‘memorial edition’, put together two years after his death in 1950, with an introduction by his son, also Archibald. Third voice: "No, a timetable would make quitting even more dangerous - there must be no mention of timetables. The family all made their suggestions, and we reminded him of poems we knew he loved but had forgotten to include: the poems that we heard read to us as children .