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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 the First and Second World Wars. He is most notable for being the commander of XXX Corps during the Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the summer of 1944.
Gerard „Jerry“ Corfield Bucknall, CB, MC&Bar war ein britischer Offizier der British Army, der unter anderem April und Juli 1943 Kommandierender General des I. Korps, von Januar bis Juli 1944 Kommandierender General des XXX. Korps sowie zwischen 1944 und 1947 Kommandeur des Militärbezirks Nordirland war. Er war zudem von 1952 ...
Gerard Corfield Bucknall (1894 – 1980) was een Britse legerofficier en korpscommandant tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Biografie. In 1914 tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd Bucknall toegevoegd aan de Middlesex Regiment en diende daarna in Frankrijk.
Also the head of corps of the 30th corps, Gerard Bucknall, is relieved of its functions on August 2nd. George Erskine, commander of the 7th Armored Division, suffered the same fate on 3 August. That same day, the tanks of the 10th S. Panzerdivision repulsed the British from the 7th Armored Division on their starting line.
Gerard Corfield Bucknall CB, MC, DL (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) was a senior British Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the 5th Infantry Division and later XXX Corps during the Battle of Normandy in mid-1944. During World War I Bucknall, promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant on 5 ...
In Normandy XXX Corps, now commanded by Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, again included the 50th Division which landed on Gold Beach. It quickly overwhelmed the German defenders of the 716th Infantry Division and had linked up with the I Corps by the end of D-Day .
Colonel, Middlesex Regiment. Picture source: http://www.war44.com/misc/images/1/os4.jpg. This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Lieutenant-General Gerard Corfield Bucknall. He was a general during World War Two.
