Richard O'Connor
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General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of the Second World
O'Connor in Yatta, Mandatory Palestine, December 1938
A Matilda tank advances through Egypt as part of Operation Compass.
O'Connor with Wavell during the assault on Bardia.
Henry Maitland Wilson
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Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during t
Wilson in 1944
Wilson, a lieutenant colonel at the time, as a staff officer with the New Zealand Division, May 1918
Group portrait of Major General Andrew Hamilton Russell (front row, centre), commanding the New Zealand Division, with staff officers at division headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, March 1919. Present also is Lieutenant Colonel H. M. "Jumbo" Wilson, the division's GSO1, sat to Russell's right.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander in Chief Cyrenaica, inspects men of the captured Tripolitanian Camel Corps, Libya.