A portrait of Field Marshal Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Auchinleck" class="extiw" title="en:Claude Auchinleck">Claude John Eyre Auchinleck</a> GCB GCIE CSI DSO OBE (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), who was Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in early 1941, followed by C-in-C of the Middle East theatre in July 1941. In June 1943 he was again appointed C-in-C India, responsible for the organisation of supply, maintenance and training for Slim's Fourteenth Army. After 1947 he became Supreme Commander of all British forces in India and Pakistan until late 1948.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Reginald_Eves" class="extiw" title="w:en:Reginald Eves"><span title="British painter (1876-1941)">Reginald Grenville Eves</span></a>
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1940<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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