"Oconnor, Richard"@en . "1981Z"^^ . . . "Dick"@en . . "General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, KT, GCB, GBE, DSO & Bar, MC (21 August 1889 \u2013 17 June 1981) was a British Army general who 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 completely destroyed a much larger Italian army \u2013 a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel to try to reverse the situation."@en . . "Northern Command, India" . . . . "British troops in Egypt" . . . . "6th Infantry Division" . "1889Z"^^ . . . "2nd Infantry Battalion,Honourable Artillery Company" . . "7th Infantry Division" . . . "XIII Corps" . . . . "Peshawar Brigade" . "VIII Corps" . . . . "1889-08-21Z"^^ . . "Eastern Command, India" . "British Army general" . . . . "1948Z"^^ . "1981-06-17Z"^^ . . . "Sir Richard O'Connor"@en . . "Western Desert Force" . "1909Z"^^ . .