Denis O'Connor (British Army officer)

After attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, O'Connor was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in September 1927,^[1][2] and was deployed in India from 1929 to 1935.^[2]

O'Connor served in the Second World War, initially as an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley and then with the 11th Armoured Division.^[2] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 63rd Medium Artillery Regiment in North West Europe in 1944 and was then deployed with the Fourteenth Army to Burma in 1945.^[2]

After the war O'Connor became Director of Plans to the Supreme Allied Commander for South East Asia Command before becoming a brigadier on the General Staff of Middle East Command in 1946.^[2] After attending the Imperial Defence College in 1950,^[3] he was appointed Chief Instructor at the Royal School of Artillery in 1951 and Commander Royal Artillery for 11th Armoured Division in 1953.^[2]

O'Connor became Director of Plans at the War Office in 1955 and General Officer Commanding 6th Armoured Division in 1957.^[2] He was made Chief Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College in London in 1958 and GOC Aldershot District in 1960.^[2] He was appointed Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff in 1962 and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1964.^[4] He retired in 1966.^[2]

• Generals of World War II