Denis O'Connor (British Army officer)

O'Connor was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1927,[1] and was deployed in India from 1929 to 1935.[1]

O'Connor served in the Second World War, initially as an instructor at the Staff College and then with the 11th Armoured Division.[1] 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.[1]

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.[1] He was appointed Chief Instructor at the Royal School of Artillery in 1951 and Commander Royal Artillery for 11th Armoured Division in 1953.[1]

O'Connor became Director of Plans at the War Office in 1955 and General Officer Commanding 6th Armoured Division in 1957.[1] He was made Chief Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College in London in 1958 and GOC Aldershot District in 1960.[1] He was appointed Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff in 1962 and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1964.[2] He retired in 1966.[1]