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	{{Short description\|British Field Marshal (1884–1981)}}		{{Short description\|British Field Marshal (1884–1981)}}
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	==Between the world wars==		==Between the world wars==
	Auchinleck attended the [[Staff College, Quetta]], between 1920 and 1921.<ref name=heath30/> He married Jessie Stewart in 1921. Jessie had been born in 1900 in [[Tacoma, Washington]], to Alexander Stewart, head of the [[Blue Funnel Line]] that plied the west coast of the United States. When he died about 1919, their mother took her, her twin brother Alan and her younger brother Hepburne back to Bun Rannoch, the family estate at Innerhadden in [[Perthshire]]. Holidaying at [[Grasse]] on the [[French Riviera]], Auchinleck, who was on leave from India at the time, met Jessie on the tennis courts. She was a high-spirited, blue-eyed beauty. Things moved quickly, and they were married within five months. Sixteen years younger than Auchinleck, Jessie became known as 'the little American girl' in India, but adapted readily to life there.<ref>{{cite journal\| journal=[[The Spokesman-Review]]\|title=Claude Auchinleck\| date=8 July 1941\| page=1}}</ref> They had no children.<ref>{{cite news\|author=J. Y. Smith \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/25/sir-claude-auchinleck-96-dies/5f3e51c0-36ea-4dff-ad4c-234de623f0bf/?noredirect=on \|title=Sir Claude Auchinleck, 96, Dies \|newspaper=The Washington Post \|date=25 March 1981\|access-date=10 February ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Auchinleck attended the [[Staff College, Quetta]], between 1920 and 1921.<ref name=heath30/> He married Jessie Stewart in 1921. Jessie had been born in 1900 in [[Tacoma, Washington]], to Alexander Stewart, head of the [[Blue Funnel Line]] that plied the west coast of the United States. When he died about 1919, their mother took her, her twin brother Alan and her younger brother Hepburne back to Bun Rannoch, the family estate at Innerhadden in [[Perthshire]]. Holidaying at [[Grasse]] on the [[French Riviera]], Auchinleck, who was on leave from India at the time, met Jessie on the tennis courts. She was a high-spirited, blue-eyed beauty. Things moved quickly, and they were married within five months. Sixteen years younger than Auchinleck, Jessie became known as 'the little American girl' in India, but adapted readily to life there.<ref>{{cite journal\| journal=[[The Spokesman-Review]]\|title=Claude Auchinleck\| date=8 July 1941\| page=1}}</ref> They had no children.<ref>{{cite news\|author=J. Y. Smith \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/25/sir-claude-auchinleck-96-dies/5f3e51c0-36ea-4dff-ad4c-234de623f0bf/?noredirect=on \|title=Sir Claude Auchinleck, 96, Dies \|newspaper=The Washington Post \|date=25 March 1981\|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>

	Auchinleck became temporary Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at [[India Command\|Army Headquarters]] in February 1923 and then second-in-command of his regiment, which in the 1923 reorganisation of the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] had become the [[1st Punjab Regiment]], in September 1925.<ref name=heath30/> He attended the [[Royal College of Defence Studies\|Imperial Defence College]] in 1927 and, having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 21 January 1929<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33475\| date=8 March 1929\|page=1678}}</ref> he was appointed to command his regiment.<ref name=heath30/> Promoted to full [[colonel]] on 1 February 1930 with seniority from 15 November 1923,<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33600\| date=25 April 1930\|page=2596}}</ref> he became an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta in February 1930<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33604\| date=9 May 1930\|page=2870}}</ref> where he remained until April 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33952\| date=23 June 1933\|page=4206}}</ref>		Auchinleck became temporary Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at [[India Command\|Army Headquarters]] in February 1923 and then second-in-command of his regiment, which in the 1923 reorganisation of the [[British Indian Army\|Indian Army]] had become the [[1st Punjab Regiment]], in September 1925.<ref name=heath30/> He attended the [[Royal College of Defence Studies\|Imperial Defence College]] in 1927 and, having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 21 January 1929<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33475\| date=8 March 1929\|page=1678}}</ref> he was appointed to command his regiment.<ref name=heath30/> Promoted to full [[colonel]] on 1 February 1930 with seniority from 15 November 1923,<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33600\| date=25 April 1930\|page=2596}}</ref> he became an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta in February 1930<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33604\| date=9 May 1930\|page=2870}}</ref> where he remained until April 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=33952\| date=23 June 1933\|page=4206}}</ref>
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	==Memorials==		==Memorials==
	[[File:Broad Street, Birmingham - Claude Auchinleck statue (23697292286) (cropped).jpg\|thumb\|Statue of Auchinleck in Birmingham]]		[[File:Broad Street, Birmingham - Claude Auchinleck statue (23697292286) (cropped).jpg\|thumb\|Statue of Auchinleck in Birmingham]]
	Auchinleck is buried in [[Ben M'Sik European Cemetery]], [[Casablanca]], in the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] plot in the cemetery, next to the grave of [[Raymond Steed]] who was the second youngest non-civilian Commonwealth casualty of the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2022403 \|title=Cemetery details—Ben M'Sik European Cemetery\|publisher= Commonwealth War Graves Commission\|access-date=22 April ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Auchinleck is buried in [[Ben M'Sik European Cemetery]], [[Casablanca]], in the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] plot in the cemetery, next to the grave of [[Raymond Steed]] who was the second youngest non-civilian Commonwealth casualty of the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2022403 \|title=Cemetery details—Ben M'Sik European Cemetery\|publisher= Commonwealth War Graves Commission\|access-date=22 April 2009}}</ref>

	A memorial plaque was erected in the crypt of [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. A bronze statue of Auchinleck can be seen on Broad Street adjacent to Auchinleck House, Five Ways, Birmingham.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/auchinleck-statue-prime-position-birmingham-3913372\|title=Auchinleck statue to get prime position in Birmingham Five Ways shopping centre plan\|date=1 March 2012\|newspaper=Birmingham Post\|access-date=9 November ~~2022~~}}</ref>		A memorial plaque was erected in the crypt of [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. A bronze statue of Auchinleck can be seen on Broad Street adjacent to Auchinleck House, Five Ways, Birmingham.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/auchinleck-statue-prime-position-birmingham-3913372\|title=Auchinleck statue to get prime position in Birmingham Five Ways shopping centre plan\|date=1 March 2012\|newspaper=Birmingham Post\|access-date=9 November 2017}}</ref>

	==Awards and decorations==		==Awards and decorations==
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	* Chief Commander of the [[Legion of Merit]] (United States, 23 July 1948)<ref name="USlegion"/>		* Chief Commander of the [[Legion of Merit]] (United States, 23 July 1948)<ref name="USlegion"/>
	* [[Virtuti Militari]], 5th class (Poland, 15 May 1942)<ref name="poland"/>		* [[Virtuti Militari]], 5th class (Poland, 15 May 1942)<ref name="poland"/>
	* Member First Class [[Order of the Star of Nepal]] (Nepal)<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEvbH8Fv-boC&q=claude+auchinleck+awarded+order+of+star+of+nepal&pg=PA277 \|title=The Life and Times of Maharaja Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal p. 277\|author=Ishwari Prasad \|date=October 1996\|publisher=APH Publishing \|isbn=9788170247562\|access-date=22 May ~~2022~~}}</ref>		* Member First Class [[Order of the Star of Nepal]] (Nepal)<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEvbH8Fv-boC&q=claude+auchinleck+awarded+order+of+star+of+nepal&pg=PA277 \|title=The Life and Times of Maharaja Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal p. 277\|author=Ishwari Prasad \|date=October 1996\|publisher=APH Publishing \|isbn=9788170247562\|access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref>
	* [[Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945\|War Cross]] (Czechoslovakia, 1944)<ref name="czech"/>		* [[Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945\|War Cross]] (Czechoslovakia, 1944)<ref name="czech"/>
	* [[Order of the Star of Nepal]] (Nepal, 1945)<ref name='nepal'/>		* [[Order of the Star of Nepal]] (Nepal, 1945)<ref name='nepal'/>

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