6th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)
The 6th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army, created in September 1940 during the Second World War and re-formed in May 1951 in the UK.
15-cwt trucks, carriers and motorcycles of a motor battalion in 6th Armoured Division, lined up for an inspection by the King near Brandon in Suffolk, 12 September 1941.
Crusader III tank of the 17th/21st Lancers on a road near Bou Arada, Tunisia, 13 January 1943.
German prisoners of war (POWs) carry a wounded British soldier during the 6th Armoured Division's attack on the town of Pichon in Tunisia, 8 April 1943.
Priest 105 mm self-propelled gun of 12th Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company), 6th Armoured Division, 17 May 1944.
General Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both world wars. He served as both a private soldier and a junior officer in the First World War. During the Second World War he served as a distinguished brigade, division and corps commander, where his most notable role was as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of I Corps during the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, leading the corps throughout the subsequent campaign in Western Europe until Victory in Europe Day (VE-Day) just over eleven months later.
John Crocker
Lieutenant-General John Crocker watching the fighting near Caen from a jeep, July 1944. With him are his aide-de-camp, Captain John Cross, and Lance Corporal Marsden, his driver.
Crocker, is invested with his knightood by King George VI at the headquarters of the 21st Army Group on 15 October 1944. Montgomery is seen standing in the foreground.
Left to right: Major-General Roger Evans, Lieutenant-General Sir John Crocker, Major-General Meade Edward Dennis. The three generals are attending a ceremony for the opening of the Army Cadet Force Centre, in South-Western District, sometime in 1945.
