Alexander (of Tunis), Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl 1891-1969
Anglo-Irish field marshal and politician

Born in Caledon, County Tyrone, in World War I he commanded a battalion of the Irish Guards on the Western Front and led it through the battles of Passchendaele, Cambrai (1917) and Hazebrouck (1918). Between 1932 and 1939 he was a staff officer with the Northern Command and in India. In 1940 he commanded the rearguard at the Dunkirk evacuation, and was the last man to leave France. His North Africa command (1942-43) brought one of the most complete victories in World War II. He commanded the invasions of Sicily and Italy (1943), was appointed field marshal on the capture of Rome in June 1944 and became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean for the rest of the war. From 1946 to 1952 he was Governor-General of Canada and from 1952 to 1954 Minister of Defence in the Conservative government.