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    Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL (26 December 1887 – 31 January 1966) was a British Army officer. He saw service...
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    Percival (/ˈpɜːrsɪvəl/, also written Perceval, Parzival, Parsifal), alternatively called Peredur (Welsh pronunciation: [pɛˈrɛdɨr]), is a figure in the...
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    defences were quickly outflanked. The British Lieutenant-General, Arthur Percival, commanded 85,000 Allied troops at Singapore, although many units were...
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  • share in the administration. Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Benians, Ernest Alfred; Newton, Arthur Percival; Rose, John Holland (1940)....
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  • Look up Percival or Perceval in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Percival is a Knight of the Round Table in the King Arthur legend. Percival, Perceval...
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    soldier Percival "Percy" Myers (1887–1967), British political activist Arthur Percival "A.P." Newton (1873–1942), British historian and academic Percival Noronha...
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    (Pelleas), Percyvale (Percival), Safer (Safir), and Trystram Delyens (Tristram de Lyones) for the total of merely 24 (not counting Arthur). Aglovale de Galis...
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    Arthur Percival Gwynn (11 June 1874 – 14 February 1898) was an Irish cricketer and rugby union player. Arthur Percival Gwynn was born in Ramelton, County...
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    Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1849 – 19 April 1916) is best known today as the innovator of the fifteen inch minimum gauge railway...
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  • Arthur Percival Newton (1873–1942) was a historian of the British Empire who was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1920...
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    Allied forces in Singapore, under the command of Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942; about 130,000 Allied...
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    Arthur Percival Day (10 April 1885 – 22 January 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the period of the...
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    Fifteen-inch gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate...
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    (1982), p. 375. Knecht (1982), p. 333. Benians, Ernest Alfred; Newton, Arthur Percival; Rose, John Holland (1940). The English history of the British Empire...
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    Arthur Perceval Purey-Cust (born Arthur Perceval Cust; 21 February 1828 – 23 December 1916) was a Church of England cleric and author who served as Dean...
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    Alamein, 17 July 1942 Caribbean Regiment soldiers in Egypt Lt Gen. Arthur Percival, led by a Japanese officer, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate...
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    A Century of Advance. Book 1, Donald F. Lach pp. 93–94 [1] Newton, Arthur Percival (1936). The Cambridge History of the British Empire, volume 2. p. 61...
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    7 June 2015. The Great Explosion at Faversham by Arthur Percival Also reprinted in Percival, Arthur (1985), "The great Explosion at Faversham, 2 April...
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    the defenses shattered and supplies exhausted, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival surrendered the Allied forces in Singapore to General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
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    Thailand during World War II. It was authorised by Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival as a "mini Matador" after Operation Matador, a pre-emptive strike into...
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    British lieutenant-general Arthur Percival, who had surrendered Singapore, received two of the six pens used by General MacArthur to sign the instrument....
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    Arthur Percival Foley Rhys-Davids, DSO, MC & Bar (26 September 1897 – 27 October 1917) was a British flying ace of the First World War. Rhys-Davids was...
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    World War, from 11–13 December 1941. The British defeat compelled Arthur Percival to order all Allied aircraft stationed in Malaya to withdraw to Singapore...
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    Alfred; Newton, Arthur Percival; Rose, John Holland (1940). "The Cambridge history of the British Empire, Volume 2 by Arthur Percival Newton p.14". Archived...
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    Faversham News, 5 Aug 1977, p8 The Great Explosion at Faversham by Arthur Percival: also reprinted in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. C. (1985). Faversham...
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    the Philippines withdrew to Java on 12 December 1941. General Douglas MacArthur was ordered out, leaving his men at Corregidor on the night of 11 March...
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    Salabat Jung Hyder Ali Anwaruddin Khan Benians, Ernest Alfred; Newton, Arthur Percival; Rose, John Holland (1929). The Cambridge History of the British Empire...
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    Craig McGinlay is a Scottish actor, best known for playing Sir Percival in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. McGinlay grew up in Paisley just outside...
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    A Century of Advance. Book 1, Donald F. Lach pp. 93–94 [1] Newton, Arthur Percival (1936). The Cambridge History of the British Empire, volume 2. p. 61...
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  • Japanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) Malaya in charge of Malaya Command...
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