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    Lieutenant General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, CB, MC & Bar, DL (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) was a senior British Army officer who served in both...
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    order of battle was as follows: General Officer Commanding Lt-Gen Gerard Bucknall (to 3 August 1944) Lt-Gen Brian Horrocks (from 4 August 1944) Corps...
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  • rower. Gerard Bucknall (1894-1980), British World War II general. James Bucknall (b. 1958) British general and Deputy Commander ISAF Steve Bucknall (b. 1966)...
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  • Holstein-Rendsburg (died 1340) Gerard Bucknall (1894–1980), British army general Gerard Pietersz Hulft (1621–1656), Dutch general Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake...
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  • supervisor Ann Corfield Henderson, daughter of Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall and former wife of Andrew V. Henderson. They had no children and divorced...
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    the British 5th Infantry Division, now commanded by Major General Gerard Bucknall (replacing Major General Berney-Ficklin, who returned to England),...
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    John Harding, Richard McCreery, Gordon MacMillan, Alexander Galloway, Gerard Bucknall, Philip Gregson-Ellis, Alexander Cameron and Cameron Nicholson. In...
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    and April 1940." The 53rd Division, now commanded by Major-General Gerard Bucknall, returned to the Welsh Border counties again in November 1941, with...
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    Division 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall (June-August 1944); Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks (from August...
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  • years. He is the grandson of Lt Gen Gerard Bucknall and younger brother of James Bucknall. After retiring Bucknall set out on a 5,500 mile journey from...
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    September, he relinquished command of XI Corps over to Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, and took command of IX Corps District from Lieutenant-General Francis...
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    same rate of advance. The commander of XXX Corps, Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, was dismissed on 2 August and the commander of the 7th Armoured Division...
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    had been dissatisfied with the performance of the corps and its GOC, Gerard Bucknall, a fellow Middlesex Regiment officer, since the landings in Normandy...
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    6 June 1944 where, along with XXX Corps, under Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall (who had commanded I Corps between April and August 1943), it was a...
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    Majendie GOC British Army in Northern Ireland 1943–1944 Succeeded by Gerard Bucknall Preceded by Sir Kenneth Anderson GOC-in-C Eastern Command 1944–1945...
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    he became the GOC of the 53rd Division, succeeding Major General Gerard Bucknall. His rank of major general was made temporary on 12 September 1943...
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    invasion. Gold Beach XXX Corps (UK), commanded by Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division: Major General Douglas Graham...
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    carried by ship. The British 5th Infantry Division (Major-general Gerard Bucknall) of XIII Corps, under Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, would land...
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  • British 5th Infantry Division Major-General Gerard Bucknall 13th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier L.M. Campbell) 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)...
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    1943, the division was assigned to I Corps, under Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall, and was earmarked as an assault division for the invasion of Normandy...
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  • (1872–1942) Polo player (1900 summer Olympics) Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall, (1894–1980) British Army officer who served in World War I and World...
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  • by Major-General Horatio Berney-Ficklin (succeeded by Major-General Gerard Bucknall on 3 August). 13th Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish...
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    commanded the division since July 1940, was replaced by Major-General Gerard Bucknall. The division was pulled out of the line and absorbed replacements...
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    latter was happy to replace him with another protégé, Major-General Gerard Bucknall. Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst recalled an incident from the campaign:...
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    Berney-Ficklin was relieved of his command and replaced as GOC by Major General Gerard Bucknall, a protégé of Montgomery's who was two years younger, and returned...
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    Adair Preceded by William Ramsden GOC XXX Corps 1942–1943 Succeeded by Gerard Bucknall Preceded by Sir Bernard Montgomery GOC-in-C Eighth Army 1943–1944 Succeeded by...
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    D-Day. Two of its formations, I Corps (John Crocker) and XXX Corps (Gerard Bucknall, later Brian Horrocks) took part in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944...
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    ground. Dempsey ordered the XXX Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall and the 7th Armoured Division commander, Major-General George Erskine...
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  • several future high-ranking officers, such as Alexander Galloway, Gerard Bucknall, John Harding, Richard McCreery, Philip Gregson-Ellis, William Holmes...
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    (Welsh) Infantry Division. The division, then commanded by Major General Gerard Bucknall, was serving in Northern Ireland until moving to Wales late in 1941...
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