Lieutenant General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, KCB, CBE, DSO (27 October 1894 – 22 January 1978) was a senior British Army officer...
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Gothic Line (redirect from Operation Olive)
fired against it by allied land forces. According to Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese, commander of the British Eighth Army: "The battle of Rimini was one...
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of several diversionary raids. In September, Ramsden was replaced by Oliver Leese. XXX Corps was to be the focus of Montgomery's first offensive, codenamed...
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of Sir Joseph Francis Leese, 1st Baronet (1845–1914), and a second cousin of Sir Oliver Leese, 3rd Baronet (1894–1978). Leese was educated at Giggleswick...
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Leese, a late British politician Oliver Leese, a late British World War II general Richard Leese, a British politician Leese, Germany, a municipality in Lower...
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and the British Eighth Army, now commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese, Kesselring chose to create a separate 14th Army under General Eberhard...
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general (d. 1974) 1894 – Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984) 1894 – Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978) 1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor...
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Overlord. Command of the Eighth Army was given to Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese, previously the commander of XXX Corps, which was being returned to England...
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Home Forces, the Guards Armoured Division, commanded by Major General Oliver Leese, was formed in May 1941 as a result of the shortage of armoured troops...
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John Maynard Keynes, economist Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist Oliver Leese, WWII commander 8th Army Frederick Stanley Maude, WWI commander Stewart...
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Lieutenant General Oliver Leese and firm command established over the Northern Combat Area Command. General William Slim replaced Leese in July 1945, shortly...
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out on promotion; his contemporary corps commanders in North Africa, Oliver Leese and Miles Dempsey, went on to command at army level and above. Horrocks'...
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good soon afterwards. On 19 March 1943, XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) commenced Operation Pugilist. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division...
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secondary attack to the south, involving XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) and XIII Corps (Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks), while X Corps (Lieutenant-General...
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Austrian football manager Oliver Lee (disambiguation), multiple people Oliver Leese (1894–1978), British army officer Oliver Elles Leggett (1876–1946)...
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vain attempt to dissuade her from marrying the much older comedian Vic Oliver. Lady Houston had backed Randolph's three attempts to stand for Parliament...
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who, like Christison, would eventually rise to high command, such as Oliver Leese, John Whiteley, Evelyn Barker, Robert Bridgeman, Eric Dorman-Smith, Ronald...
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was asked to remain in post until his successor, Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese, could relieve him. As a result, he remained until October. In 1945,...
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King George VI knights General Oliver Leese in a field in Italy in 1944....
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with Montgomery handing over the Eighth Army to Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese and departing for the United Kingdom to take up command of the 21st Army...
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Sir William Hargreaves Leese, 2nd Baronet, JP (24 August 1868 – 17 January 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister. The son of the cricketer...
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them. My own view is that to win a war of this sort, you must be ruthless. Oliver Cromwell, or the Germans, would have settled it in a very short time. Nowadays...
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Kenneth Anderson GOC-in-C Eastern Command 1944–1945 Succeeded by Sir Oliver Leese Government offices Preceded by John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort High Commissioner...
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Viscount Amory Alec Douglas-Home Bear Grylls Prince Edward, Duke of Kent Oliver Leese Shane Leslie Robert R. McCormick Simon Sebag-Montefiore Osbert Sitwell...
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McCreery took over command of the Eighth Army from Lieutenant General Oliver Leese on 1 October 1944. The 1945 spring offensive which followed, conducted...
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advance of the British Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese. In February to May 1944, the 1st Parachute Division took part in the...
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Law Montgomery Northern sector British XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) Australian 9th Division (Major-General Leslie Morshead) British 51st...
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Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916) 1978 – Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894) 1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer...
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Neville Leese OBE DSO (23 March 1872 – 22 June 1948) was an English first-class cricketer, miner and British Army officer. The son of the cricketer and...
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Line in August 1944, with the British Eighth Army (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) attacking up the coastal plain of the Adriatic and the U.S. Fifth Army...
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