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Richard Oconnor

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
War Hero
Died
Jun 17, 1981
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
India
About
Best remembered for his leadership during such World War II military initiatives as Operation Compass and Operation Market Garden, he received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Croix de Guerre, and numerous other honors for his service in the British Army.
Family
He was born in what was then British India to a colonial governor's daughter and an Irish soldier. Several years after the 1959 death of his wife Jean, O'Connor married Dorothy Russell.

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