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| name = Sir Denis O'Connor<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|07|02|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Shimla|Simla]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|01|18|1907|07|02|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Surrey]], England<br />
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| allegiance = United Kingdom<br />
| branch = [[British Army]]<br />
| serviceyears = 1927–1966<br />
| rank = [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]<br />
| servicenumber = 38415<br />
| unit = [[Royal Artillery]]<br />
| commands = [[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|British Forces in Hong Kong]]<br/>[[Aldershot Command|Aldershot District]]<br/>[[6th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|6th Armoured Division]]<br/>63rd Medium Artillery Regiment<br />
| battles = [[Second World War]]<br />
| awards = [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Mentioned in Despatches]]<br />
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[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Sir Denis Stuart Scott (Rory) O'Connor''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB}} (2 July 1907 – 18 January 1988) was a senior [[British Army]] officer who served as [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Aldershot Command|Aldershot District]] from 1960 to 1961.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
After attendimg the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], O'Connor was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[Royal Artillery]] in September 1927,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33308|page=5674|date=2 September 1927}}</ref><ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/OCONNOR1.shtml Sir Denis Stuart Scott (Rory) O'Connor] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> and was deployed in India from 1929 to 1935.<ref name=lh/><br />
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O'Connor served in the [[Second World War]], initially as an instructor at the [[Staff College, Camberley]] and then with the [[11th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|11th Armoured Division]].<ref name=lh/> He was appointed [[Commanding Officer]] of 63rd Medium Artillery Regiment in North West Europe in 1944 and was then deployed with the [[Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom)|Fourteenth Army]] to Burma in 1945.<ref name=lh/><br />
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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.<ref name=lh/> After attending the [[Royal College of Defence Studies|Imperial Defence College]] in 1950,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/O%27Connor/Denis_Stuart_Scott/Great_Britain.html|title=O'Connor, Denis Stuart Scott|publisher=Generals.dk|access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref> he was appointed Chief Instructor at the [[Royal School of Artillery]] in 1951 and [[Commander]] Royal Artillery for 11th Armoured Division in 1953.<ref name=lh/><br />
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O'Connor became Director of Plans at the [[War Office]] in 1955 and [[General Officer Commanding]] [[6th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|6th Armoured Division]] in 1957.<ref name=lh/> He was made Chief Army Instructor at the [[Imperial Defence College]] in [[London]] in 1958 and GOC [[Aldershot Command|Aldershot District]] in 1960.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed [[Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff]] in 1962 and [[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong]] in 1964.<ref>[http://www.legco.gov.hk/1966/h660105.pdf Legislative Committee Minutes]</ref> He retired in 1966.<ref name=lh/><br />
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*[https://generals.dk/general/O%27Connor/Denis_Stuart_Scott/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]<br />
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