The Trusty Servant May 2015 No.119 | Page 11

NO.119 whether or not we felt that Wavell had been a great man, albeit the tour booklet had marked our cards with this extract from Fort’s biography: ‘The admiration, and sometime adulation, that people felt for Wavell contrasted with his modesty and detachment. Many soldiers who came to know him well …… seemed unable to find fault in him, and painted portraits that he would probably think gleamed rather too bright. Yet people from many other walks of life also described him as a great man. TS Eliot did not know him well, but wrote: ‘What I do know from personal acquaintance with the man, is that he wa ́