Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order & Bar Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross Mentioned in Despatches (3) Croix de guerre (France)
Spouse(s)
Margaret Elizabeth MacGregor Greer
(m. 1927; died 1953)
Children
Dorinda Margery Percival (daughter)
Alfred James MacGregor Percival (son)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
白思華[1]
Simplified Chinese
白思华
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Báisīhuá
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
baak6 si1 waa4
Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL (26 December 1887 – 31 January 1966) was a senior British Army officer. He saw service in the First World War and built a successful military career during the interwar period but is most noted for his defeat in the Second World War, when he commanded British Empire forces during the Japanese Malayan Campaign and the subsequent Battle of Singapore.
Percival's surrender to the invading Imperial Japanese Army force, the largest surrender in British military history, undermined Britain's prestige as an imperial power in East Asia.[2][3] His defenders, such as Sir John Smyth, have argued that under-funding of Malaya's defences and the inexperienced, under-equipped nature of the Empire army in Malaya, not Percival's leadership, were ultimately to blame.[4]
^"僑領紛紛反駁白思華誹謗報告政府不信華僑豈是華僑未盡衛土之責". Nanyang Siang Pau (in Chinese). 6 March 1948. p. 5.
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