Arthur Ernest Percival
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Deutsch: Arthur Ernest Percival (* 26. Dezember 1887; † 31. Januar 1966 in London) war ein britischer Lieutenant General.
English: Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO and Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL (December 26, 1887 - January 31, 1966) was a British Army officer and a World War I hero.
Français : Arthur Ernest Percival (né le 26 décembre 1887, mort le 31 janvier 1966) était un lieutenant-général britannique, commandant de la Malaisie durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et prisonnier de guerre
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Date of birth | 26 December 1887 Aspenden | ||||
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Date of death | 31 January 1966 City of Westminster | ||||
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Lieutenant General Percival leaving a plane on his arrival in Singapore as the new GOC Malaya
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Lieutenant General Percival welcomes US envoy Averell Harriman at Sembawang Airfield, Singapore, 30 October 1941
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Lieutenant-General A E Percival, General Officer Commanding Malaya at the time of the Japanese attack. December 1941
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Lieutenant General Percival, GOC Malaya (second from right), with war correspondents in Singapore, shortly before the captitulation, late January 1942
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MacArthur giving to Percival the pen he used to sign the Japan capitulation documents (2 september 1945)