Lieutenant General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, KCB, CBE, DSO (27 October 1894 – 22 January 1978) was a senior British Army officer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and the British Eighth Army, now commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese, Kesselring chose to create a separate 14th Army under General Eberhard...

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...

who, like Christison, would eventually rise to high command, such as Oliver Leese, John Whiteley, Evelyn Barker, Robert Bridgeman, Eric Dorman-Smith, Ronald...

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...

of XXX Corps, Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese in 1943. He accompanied Leese in North Africa, and, after Leese took command of the Eighth Army, into...

John Maynard Keynes, economist Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist Oliver Leese, WWII commander 8th Army Frederick Stanley Maude, WWI commander Stewart...

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...

good soon afterwards. On 19 March 1943, XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) commenced Operation Pugilist. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division...

secondary attack to the south, involving XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) and XIII Corps (Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks), while X Corps (Lieutenant-General...

Lieutenant General Oliver Leese and firm command established over the Northern Combat Area Command. General William Slim replaced Leese in July 1945, shortly...

Austrian football manager Oliver Lee (disambiguation), multiple people Oliver Leese (1894–1978), British army officer Oliver Elles Leggett (1876–1946)...

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...

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'...

trained through to the end of the year. On 30 January 1941, Major-General Oliver Leese took command of the division. Later in the month, the division moved...

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,...

King George VI knights General Oliver Leese in a field in Italy in 1944....

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...

Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916) 1978 – Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894) 1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer...

Sir Oliver Leese succeeded Giffard in command. (Mountbatten's Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Pownall, had been lobbying for some time for Leese to...

Sir Miles Dempsey, and XXX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese. The two divisions of XIII Corps, the 5th and 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry...

McCreery took over command of the Eighth Army from Lieutenant General Oliver Leese on 1 October 1944. The 1945 spring offensive which followed, conducted...

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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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...

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...