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Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War.
May 16, 2022 · Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks, a hero of the North Africa campaign and Operation Market Garden, was given a second send-off on Monday, following the discovery of his unscattered ashes more than...
Jan 9, 1985 · Sir Brian Horrocks, the World War II general who helped take North Africa from the Germans, died Sunday night, his family announced today. He was 89 years old.
May 13, 2022 · Lt Gen Brian Horrocks addresses men of XXX Corps at Rees, on the German side of the Rhine, in May 1945. He was later to be played by Edward Fox in the film ‘A Bridge Too Far’
A big challenge faced Maj. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks, an infantryman, when he was cross-posted to take command of the British Army’s 9th Armored Division in March 1942. Its standard of individual training was excellent, but the division’s mechanized state was another matter.
Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks--charismatic, self-deprecating, insightful - had an extraordinary career as a professional British soldier in both World Wars and the British intervention against the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1919, as an Olympic athlete, military instructor, and military adviser to film and television.
Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks--charismatic, self-deprecating, insightful - had an extraordinary career as a professional British soldier in both World Wars and the British intervention against the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1919, as an Olympic athlete, military instructor, and military adviser to film and television.
Oct 14, 2016 · XXX Corps commanded by Brian Horrocks was to play the leading role in the assault on the ground. Operation Garden was aimed at relieving the British 1st Airborne Division in Arnhem who were told in turn that contact with XXX Corps would be established within two days.
Jan 10, 1985 · Sir Brian Horrocks, hero of El Alamein and the “soldiers’ general” who led the Allied dash through Belgium from an ambulance because of wounds he had suffered, has died at age 89.
May 14, 2022 · WHEN Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks died in 1985 he was honoured with a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, attended by representatives of the Queen and a list of officers and dignitaries that took up two full columns in The Daily Telegraph.
