هيو ستوكويل

هيو ستوكويل
ولد	Jersey

الجنرال السير هيو تشارلز ستـَكـْوِل Hugh Charles Stockwell GCB، KBE، DSO والقضيب (عاش 16 يونيو 1903 - 27 نوفمبر 1986) كان جندياً بريطانياً، أهم ما يـُذكر به هو قيادته للقوات البرية الأنگلو-فرنسية في العدوان الثلاثي على مصر وخدمته بصفته نائب القائد الأعلى للحلفاء في اوروبا في الناتو من 1960 حتى 1964.

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 النشأة

وُلِد ستكوِل في جرسي، ولكنه أمضى طفولته في الهند حيث خدم والده (أيضاً هيو تشارلز ستكول) كضابط في مشاة المرتفعات الخفيفة.

 طوارئ الملايو

في 1952، عُين ستكوِل القائد العام للملايا حيث كان مسئولاً عن القوات البريطانية التي تقاتل في طوارئ الملايا.

 قيادة العدوان الثلاثي على مصر

وفي 1954، ترك ستكوِل الملايا ليقود الفيلق الأول، وقبل أن يترك في 1956 ليقود الفيلق الثاني والقوات البرية الفرنسية الملحقة به في بورسعيد أثناء العدوان الثلاثي على مصر. وفي تخطيطه للحرب على مصر، فضل ستكوِل كقائد بري لقوات الحلفاء العمليات المنهجية قليلة المخاطرة البطيئة والمتمحورة حول الدبابة سنتوريون. In the summer of 1956, Stockwell rejected the Contingency Plan prepared by the British Chiefs of Staff, and instead submitted العملية مسكتير, which called for the British to take Alexandria and then for British armored forces to engage in a decisive battle of annihilation with the Egyptians north of Cairo. Together with his deputy, the French General أندريه بوفر, Stockwell was highly opposed to the change imposed on Musketeer in September 1956 when Port Said replaced Alexandria as the main target. Stockwell was not popular with the officers who served under him. One French officer recalled that Stockwell was:

“Extremely excitable, gesticulating, keeping no part of him still, his hands, his feet, and even his head and shoulders perpetually on the go, he starts off by sweeping objects off the table with a swish of his swagger cane or in his room by using it to make golf-strokes with the flower vases and ash-trays. Those are the good moments. You will see him pass in an instant from the most cheerfully expressed optimism to a dejection that amounts to nervous depression. He is a cyclothymic. By turns courteous and brutal, refined and coarse, headstrong in some circumstances, hesitant and indecisive in others, he disconcerts by his unpredictable responses and the contradictions of which he is made up. One only of his qualities remains constant: his courage under fire".

When Beaufre suggested on November 3, 1956 that the Allies launch Telescope, namely Anglo-French paratroop landings in the Canal Zone ahead of schedule, Stockwell reluctantly argeed to the change. Stockwell was always in favour of rigidly following already agreed to plans, and was most reluctant to see any changes, whereas Beaufre was all for changing plans to match with changed circumstances. The differences between Stockwell and Beaufre were summarized by the American historian Derek Varble as: "Stockwell favored existing plans; their methodical construction and underlying staff work reduced risks. Beaufre, by contrast an opportunist, saw plans merely a means to an end, without much inherent value. For him, altered circumstances or assumptions provided adequate justfication to jettison part or all of the original plan".

مكافأة له على خدمته في العدوان الثلاثي، حصل على قضيب مضافاً إلى مرتبة الخدمة المتميزة في تكريمات عيد ميلاد الملكة في 1957. In the recommendation for the award, Stockwell's commander, General Sir Charles Keightley wrote, "[Stockwell's] skill, energy and courage throughout [the Suez campaign] were of the highest order."

 بعد العدوان الثلاثي

In 1957, Stockwell was promoted to the rank of general and became Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, serving in that capacity until 1959. From 1959 to 1960, he served as Adjutant-General to the Forces.

In 1960, on the advice of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Stockwell was appointed Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, a post which he held until his retirement in 1964. Stockwell was described as a "surprise choice" for the position because he had never attended Staff College, Camberley, and had "spent his whole career as a fighting soldier." As Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, he worked to promote the creation of strong conventional forces, and advocated "the use of tactical nuclear weapons only as a last resort."

 التقاعد

After retiring from the military, Stockwell became the chairman of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust and served in a variety of other positions for corporate and charitable organizations. He died on November 27, 1986 of leukemia in Swindon, England.

 المراجع

• Farrar-Hockley, Anthony (2004). "Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell". In Matthew, H.C.G; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required for online access). Vol. 52. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019861411X. {{cite book}}: |format= requires |url= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• Joslen, HF, Orders of Battle Volumes 1 and 2 United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War 1939 - 1945, London, HMSO 1960
• "Gen. Hugh Stockwell; Led British Into Egypt" (subscription required for online access). The New York Times. 28 November 1986. p. D9.
• "Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell". The Washington Post. November 29, 1986. p. B7.
• "NATO Picks Stockwell". The New York Times. 25 June 1960. p. 3.
• "The Norwegian Campaign: First List of Army Awards". The Times. 1 August 1940. p. 7c.

 وصلات خارجية

• Archival material relating to هيو ستوكويل listed at the UK National Register of Archives

مناصب عسكرية
سبقه Francis Matthews	Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1948-1950	تبعه David Dawnay
سبقه Lashmer Whistler	General Officer Commanding the 3rd Division 1951-1952	تبعه Nigel Poett
سبقه Roy Urquhart	GOC Malaya 1952-1954	تبعه Sir Geoffrey Bourne
سبقه Sir James Cassels	GOC 1st (British) Corps 1954-1956	تبعه Sir Harold Pyman
سبقه Sir Colin Callander	Military Secretary 1957-1959	تبعه Sir Geoffrey Thompson
سبقه Sir Charles Loewen	Adjutant General 1959-1960	تبعه Sir Richard Goodbody