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.
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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.
I Corps was an army corps in existence as an active formation in the British Army for most of the 80 years from its creation in the First World War until the end of the Cold War, longer than any other corps. It had a short-lived precursor during the Waterloo Campaign. It served as the operational component of the British Army of the Rhine during the Cold War, and was tasked with defending West Germany.
General Sir John Dill, General Officer Commanding I Corps, inspecting soldiers digging trenches at Flines, France. Stood three away from is his Brigadier General Staff (BGS), Brigadier Arthur Percival.
Lieutenant General John Crocker, pictured here in August 1944.
