General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan KCB, KCIE, DSO, OBE (9 January 1885 – 13 November 1960) was a British Army commander during the Second World War. In the...
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Quinan may refer to: Quinan, Nova Scotia, Canada Edward Quinan (1885 – 1960), British Army commander K. B. Quinan (1878 – 1948), American chemical engineer...
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deployed to Iraq from India under the command of Lieutenant-General Edward Quinan to protect British interests, in particular oil concessions, after a...
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and Iraq Force" (Paiforce), under the command of Lieutenant-General Edward Quinan. Paiforce was made up of 8th and 10th Indian Infantry divisions, 2nd...
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East Command. Lieutenant-General Edward Quinan arrived from India to replace Fraser as commander of Iraqforce. Quinan's immediate task was to secure Basra...
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as telegrams "didn't help him beat the Germans". By the end of May Edward Quinan's Iraqforce had captured Baghdad and the Anglo-Iraqi War had ended with...
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Basra and came under the Iraqforce commanded by Lieutenant General Edward Quinan. Singh, with the Sadul Light Infantry, then moved Jubair in Iraq. He...
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came the British Paiforce, under the command of Lieutenant-General Edward Quinan. Paiforce was made up of the 8th and 10th Indian Infantry Divisions...
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Commanders Notable commanders Lord Roberts Lord Kitchener Sir William Birdwood Sir William Slim Sir Claude Auchinleck Sir Edward Quinan Sir William Lockhart...
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was active in 1942–1943, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Quinan, and consisted of the III Corps and the XXI Indian Corps. Its main task...
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