Sack­ing Wavell also gave Churchill the oppor­tu­ni­ty to make him Viceroy of India, where he became the per­son most respon­si­ble for reliev­ing the Ben­gal Famine. Wavell (cen­ter) is at the Vicere­gal Gar­dens, New Del­hi, with Field Mar­shal Bernard Mont­gomery (left) and Com­man­der-in-Chief of the Indi­an Army, Field Mar­shal Sir Claude Auchin­leck, 17 June 1946. (Impe­r­i­al War Muse­um, Wiki­me­dia Commons)