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Richard O'Connor

1889 - 1981

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General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) 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 War. He was the field commander for Operation Compass, in which his forces destroyed a much larger Italian army – a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel to try to reverse the situation. O'Connor was captured by a German reconnaissance patrol during the night of 7 April 1941 and spent over two years in an Italian prisoner of war camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard O'Connor has received more than 335,904 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard O'Connor is the 1,760th most popular military personnel (down from 1,474th in 2019).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard O'Connor ranks 1,760 out of 2,058. Before him are Nadezhda Popova, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Alexander von Krobatin, Miles Dempsey, and Hans von Funck. After him are Mahamat Déby, Serhiy Shaptala, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jonathan M. Wainwright, and John Byng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Richard O'Connor ranks 217. Before him are Beulah Bondi, Jan Kok, Georges Bonnet, Géo André, Anita Loos, and Carl Bertilsson. After him are Stanley Morison, Paul Deman, Giovanni Micheletto, James L. Peters, Arnulf Øverland, and Ted Wilde. Among people deceased in 1981, Richard O'Connor ranks 177. Before him are J. L. Mackie, Mica Todorović, Anita Loos, Ludwig Goldbrunner, Stanisław Mazur, and Morris Kirksey. After him are Constantin Rădulescu, Cláudio Coutinho, Nils Asther, Sergio Amidei, Crisant Bosch, and Gustaf Dyrssen.

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