Richard O'Connor
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United KingdomLived 1889 to 1981 · aged 91General 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.
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O'Connor in Yatta, Mandatory Palestine, December 1938
The Italian Offensive and Operation Compass 13 September 1940 - 7 February 1941 (Click to enlarge).
A Matilda tank advances through Egypt as part of Operation Compass.
O'Connor with Wavell during the assault on Bardia.
O'Connor (centre, middle distance) along with Brigadier John Combe (left), Lieutenant-General Philip Neame (centre) and Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry (right), after their capture in North Africa pictured in front of a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52.
The Normandy Campaign, 13 to 30 June 1944.
O'Connor looking at enemy and British aircraft engaged overhead with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, General Sir Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke in Normandy, 12 June 1944.Awards 3
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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.
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