Talk:Commander-in-Chief, India
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Both external links show General Sir Alan Hartley as preseeding Wavell. This is wrong.
http://www-archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/perl/node?a=a&reference=CHAR%2020%2F68A-B
04 Jan 1942
- Telegram from WSC to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] refusing to remove General Sir Claude Auchinleck from command in Middle East [? to be Commander-in-Chief, India], asks if [? General Sir Alan Hartley, General Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Northern Command, India] or [? General Sir William Platt, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, East African Command] would be acceptable.
04 Jan 1942
- Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India [and Supreme Commander, South West Pacific], advising he should set up his headquarters in Java [Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia] as also advised by the United States.
http://www.fepow-community.org.uk/Research/London_Gazette/Burma_Dec_1941_to_May_1942/ Section 14:
- On 30th December, 1941, I received a telegram appointing me to the newly constituted South-West Pacific Command (afterwards known as A.B.D A.). Burma was included in this Command. I at once recommended that the defence of Burma should remain the responsibility of Commander-in-Chief, India, for the same reasons for which I had previously urged its transfer to India from the Far East Command (see paragraph 3). I was, however, overruled on the grounds that Marshal Chiang-Kai-Shek must feel himself connected with the new South West Pacific Command. I think that this decision was a serious error from the military point of view.... General Sir Alan Hartley who succeeded me as Commander-in-Chief, India', did everything possible to meet Burma's requirements.
Section 21
- On 23rd February I was ordered to close down A.OB.D.A. Command Headquarters and to reassume my appointment as Commander-in-chief, India.' I thus against became responsible for the defence of Burma within a few days of having handed it over. [sic (the "OB" and "against" are in the source) PBS]
Please see Talk:American-British-Dutch-Australian Command#C in C India for more details. User:Philip Baird Shearer October 11, 2004
[edit] Indian Commanders-in-Chief
Shouldn't this list also include Field Marshal Cariappa and General Maharaj Rajendrasighji as well? AFAIK, they, too served as military Commanders-in-Chief of India until India became a Republic in 1950. --Kunal (Talk) 20:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rank and title
- This is a list of people who were the military Commander-in-Chief, India. The rank and title are the final for the person's career and not necessarily applicable to his tenure as Commander-in-Chief.
For the last section this is clearly not true (probably others but I have not checked them). A number who are listed as General were Field Marshals by the end of their careers. Either the list needs amendment or this sentence needs changing to the rank they held during their time as C-in-C. --Philip Baird Shearer 10:03, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
