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Lieutenant General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, CB, MC & Bar, DL (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) 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 Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the ...
- 1914–1948
- British Army
El Teniente General Bucknall (centro), comandante del XXXº Cuerpo de Ejército Británico, con el Brigadier Pyman, Normandía 1944. El Teniente General Gerard Corfield Bucknall CB MC (1894 – 1980) fue un oficial del Ejército Británico y comandante de Cuerpo, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial .
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- 1980, Cheam (Reino Unido)
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- 1894, Rock Ferry (Reino Unido)
El Teniente General Gerard Corfield Bucknall CB MC (1894 – 1980) fue un oficial del Ejército Británico y comandante de Cuerpo, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El Teniente General Bucknall (centro), comandante del XXXº Cuerpo de Ejército Británico, con el Brigadier Pyman, Normandía 1944.
Gerard Corfield Bucknall CB, MC, DL (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) was a senior British Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the 5th Infantry Division and later XXX Corps during the Battle of Normandy in mid-1944.
In Normandy XXX Corps, now commanded by Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, again included the 50th Division which landed on Gold Beach. It quickly overwhelmed the German defenders of the 716th Infantry Division and had linked up with the I Corps by the end of D-Day. Following D-Day the corps launched Operation Perch.
Also the head of corps of the 30th corps, Gerard Bucknall, is relieved of its functions on August 2nd. George Erskine, commander of the 7th Armored Division, suffered the same fate on 3 August. That same day, the tanks of the 10th S. Panzerdivision repulsed the British from the 7th Armored Division on their starting line.
Lieutenant General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, CB, MC & Bar, DL (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) 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 Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the summer of 1944.
