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Major General John Bryan Churcher, (1905 – 2 August 1997) was an officer of the British Army who commanded 3rd Infantry Division. ==Military career== Churcher was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1925. He fought in World War II as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment and then as Commander of 159th Infantry Brigade serving in North-West Europe as part of 11th Armoured Division.〔(Generals.dk )〕 After the War he became General Officer Commanding 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division.〔 He was appointed GOC 5th Infantry Division in 1947 and Chief of Staff at Southern Command in 1951 - in this capacity he organised the response to the devastating Lynmouth Flood in 1952.〔(ITN Source )〕 He went on to be GOC 3rd Infantry Division in 1954 and Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1957 before retiring in 1959.〔 He is buried at St Mary's Churchyard at Wargrave in Berkshire.〔(Find-a-grave )〕
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