Horatio Berney-Ficklin
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Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. During the latter, he commanded for just over three years – from
Berney-Ficklin in January 1942
Gerard Bucknall
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Lieutenant-General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, 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 No
Horatio Berney-Ficklin
…Plain of Catania. Before the campaign was over, however, on 3 August 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 to England. Despite being a popular GOC, his performance in Sicily had impressed…
Lieutenant-General Bucknall (left) with Brigadier Harold Pyman in Normandy, 1944.