Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell

Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Black Watch on 30 January 1936,[1] Wavell's first posting was in the British Mandate for Palestine from 1936 to 1939.

[2] He lost his left hand fighting the Japanese in Burma in June 1944 in Operation Thursday where he fought with the Chindits.

On 23 December 1953, Major Lord Wavell led a patrol of the Black Watch and Kenyan police in pursuit of a sixty-strong Mau Mau gang that had beheaded a loyal Kikuyu tribesman and then fled.

He is also commemorated by an inscription in the War Cloister at Winchester College, next to the School Cadet Corps Armoury.

He died unmarried and without issue; his father having had no other male heirs, the earldom and two subsidiary viscountcies therefore became extinct on his death.

Winchester Cathedral , memorial plaques for the 2nd Earl Wavell (died 1953) and his father, Field Marshal 1st Earl Wavell (died 1950).