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Sir Denis Stuart Scott (Rory) O'Connor, (2 July 1907 – 18 January 1988) was a senior

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officer who served as General Officer Commanding Aldershot District from 1960 to 1961.

Military career

After attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, O'Connor was commissioned into the

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in September 1927,Sir Denis Stuart Scott (Rory) O'Connor
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, initially as an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley and then with the 11th Armoured Division. 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. After the war O'Connor became Director of Plans to the Supreme Allied Commander for

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before becoming a

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on the General Staff of Middle East Command in 1946. After attending the

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in 1950, he was appointed Chief Instructor at the

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in 1951 and Commander Royal Artillery for 11th Armoured Division in 1953. O'Connor became Director of Plans at the

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in 1955 and General Officer Commanding 6th Armoured Division in 1957. He was made Chief Army Instructor at the

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in 1958 and GOC Aldershot District in 1960. He was appointed

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in 1962 and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1964.Legislative Committee Minutes
/ref> He retired in 1966.

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