# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-o-connor-q352630
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:01:46.171Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-o-connor-q352630"
name: "Richard O'Connor"
slug: "richard-o-connor-q352630"
description: "General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of the Second World War. He was the field commander for Operation Compass, in which his forces destroyed a much larger Italian army – a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel to try to reverse the situation. O'Connor was captured by a German patrol on 6 April 1941 and spent over two years in an Italian prisoner of war camp. He eventually escaped after the fall of Mussolini in the autumn of 1943. In 1944 he commanded VIII Corps in the Battle of Normandy and later during Operation Market Garden. In 1945 he was General Officer in Command of the Eastern Command in India and then, in the closing days of British rule in the subcontinent, he headed Northern Command. His final job in the army was Adjutant-General to the Forces in London, in charge of the British Army's administration, personnel and organisation."
tagline: "British Army general (1889-1981)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1889-08-21"
deathDate: "1981-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump