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Brian Horrocks: Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom), Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, XXX ... Operation Market Garden, World War II
Brian Horrocks Lieutenant-General Order of the Bath Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross XXX Operation Market Garden World War II - United Kingdom Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 ? 4 January 1985) was a British army officer. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was a prisoner of... more » war twice, and competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Later he was a television presenter, authored books on military history, and was Black Rod in the House of Lords for 14 years. In 1940 Horrocks commanded a battalion during the Battle of France, the first time he served under Bernard Montgomery, the most prominent British commander of the war. Montgomery later identified Horrocks as one of his most able officers, appointing him to corps commands in both North Africa and Europe. In 1943, Horrocks was seriously wounded and took more than a year to recover before returning to command a corps in Europe« less