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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: 44th Regiment of Foot officers, 56th Regiment of Foot officers, Charles Lee, Arthur Percival, Moses Hazen, Thomas Picton, Hudson Lowe, Norman Fowler, Charles William Dunbar Staveley, Boyle Finniss, Henry Sheehy Keating, Arthur Barrett, Henry Lowther, Edward Bulfin, John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, Noel Irwin, Thomas Gore Browne, Gilbert Waterhouse, Hugh Barrett-Lennard, Ernest Gray, Thomas Mullins, James Stuart, Edward Maitland, Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet, Noel Stephen Paynter, Joseph Wanton Morrison, William Keppel, Thomas Simson Pratt, James Harford, Andrew Croft, John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk, James Mouat, Francis Newton Parsons, Edwin Campion Vaughan, Sir Kenneth Douglas, 1st Baronet, Augustus Charles Newman, Sir William Boulton, 1st Baronet, Sir William Abdy, 7th Baronet, Samuel Hulse, Charles Swinhoe, James F. M. Prinsep, Christopher Rhodes, Robert Stuart, Francis Ventris, Walter Noble, Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy, Francis Gore, James Agnew, Francis Noel Palmer, Robert Montresor Rogers, Charles Aitchison Smith, Frank Bernard Wearne, Hunt Walsh, George Byron, 9th Baron Byron, Gabriel Christie, Lord Charles Manners, James Durand, John Groves. Excerpt: Russian Civil WarAnglo-Irish WarWorld War II Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL (26 December 1887 - 31 January 1966) was a British Army officer and World War I veteran. He built a successful military career during the interwar period but is most noted for his involvement in World War II, when he commanded the forces of the British Commonwealth during the Battle of Malaya and the subsequent Battle of Singapore. Percival's surrender to the invading Imperial Japanese Army force is the largest capitulation in British military history, and it permanently undermined Britain's prestige as an imperial power in the Far Ea...
