# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-bucknall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:47:42.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-bucknall"
name: "Gerard Bucknall"
slug: "gerard-bucknall"
description: "Lieutenant-General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He is most notable for being the commander of XXX Corps during the Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the summer of 1944."
tagline: "British Army general (1894–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lt_General_Bucknall_1944_IWM_B_5468.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1894-09-14"
deathDate: "1980-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gerard Corfield Bucknall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump