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General Sir Archibald James Murray, GCB, GCMG, CVO, DSO (23 April 1860 – 21 January 1945) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was chief of staff to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August 1914 but appears to have suffered a physical breakdown in the retreat from Mons , and was ...
Success there led General Sir Archibald Murray to press the advantage by invading Palestine. However, two attacks on Ottoman-held Gaza in March-April 1917 failed, and Murray was replaced by General Sir Edmund Allenby . View this object. Field Marshal Lord Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, c1925. Map of Palestine campaign, 1918 . Manoeuvre.
The First Battle of Gaza was fought on 26 March 1917 during the first attempt by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), which was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of the Sinai an...
Who's Who - Sir Archibald Murray. Sir Archibald Murray (1860-1945), after a brief spell as Chief of Staff to Sir John French, served in command of British forces in Palestine and the Middle East during World War One.
La Segunda Batalla de Gaza terminó en un completo fracaso, por lo que el general Archibald Murray, comandante en jefe de las fuerzas británicas en Egipto y Palestina, fue sustituido por el general de caballería Edmund Allenby, antiguo comandante del Tercer Ejército Británico en el Frente Occidental.
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray, commander of the newly formed Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), now decided to push the Turks out of the Sinai peninsula. This would reduce the threat to the canal and force them to defend their own territory in southern Palestine.
After two battles at Gaza and 10,000 casualties, British High Command removed Archibald Murray as commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), replacing him with Edmund Allenby, who had recently been promoted to General.
