British Military Personnel of the Russian Civil War - British Army Personnel of the Russian Civil War (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: British Army personnel of the Russian Civil War, Royal Air Force personnel of the Russian Civil War, Royal Navy personnel of the Russian Civil War, Brian Horrocks, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Arthur Percival, Augustus Agar, Evelyn Barker, Harry Harcourt, W. N. T. Beckett, Douglas Wimberley, George Rowland Patrick Roupell, Oliver Locker-Lampson, Gerald Templer, Walter Cowan, Colin Gubbins, Samuel Kinkead, John Ward, Arthur Sullivan, Eric Sherbrooke Walker, Archibald Church, Thomas Williams, Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, Robert Gordon-Finlayson, Alan Jerrard, Algernon Willis, Roderick Carr, Philip James Woods, Arthur Borton, Frank Worsley, Ronald Sykes, David Norris, Samuel Pearse, William Beckett, Henry Gale, Paul Dukes, Berwick Curtis, Cecil Aylmer Cameron, Archie Cecil Thomas White, Adam Archibald, Arthur Batten-Pooll, George Grogan, Claude Congreve Dobson, Archibald Jack, Gordon Charles Steele, Robert Johnson, Sir Edward Grogan, 2nd Baronet, Rowan Daly, John Alfred Moreton. Excerpt: 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 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, Horroc...