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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.
- 1879–1922
- British Army
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.
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.
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.
General Archibald Murray commanding the EEF reported the defeat at Gaza to the War Office in overly optimistic terms such that his reputation, as a consequence, depended on a decisive victory at the second attempt.
- 17–19 April 1917
- Ottoman victory
Sir Archibald Murray’s British troops at last started a massive advance in December 1916 and captured some Turkish outposts on the northeastern edge of the Sinai Desert but made a pusillanimous withdrawal from Gaza in March 1917 at the very moment when the Turks were….
30 de abr. de 2018 · Sir Archibald James Murray was Chief of the Imperial General Staff from September 1915 to December 1915 and Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from March 1916 to June 1917.
