Talk:Brian Horrocks

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[edit] Start

I just started this article today and I'm aware it's a bit "bare bones", particularly on his role in Second Alamein and Market Garden. However I don't feel that I know enough about these battles to comment on his involvement. If anyone wants to expand on these I think it would help the article. Leithp 14:28, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Style issue discussion

There is a discussion going on here whether or not the first sentence of a biographical article should contain the full name of the individual and include any post nominal initials (eg. VC, KCB, OBE) or whether these should be relegated to later in the article. I have tried to point out that this is standard style and part of their full titles but there are “readability” concerns. This arose because of the Richard O’Connor featured article and one possible solution, a biobox, is now in place on that page. Please make your opinions known.Dabbler 12:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mission or Expeditionary Force?

Dis Horrocks serve with the British Mission i.e. in a quasi-diplomatic role as Britain did not recognise the Soviet government but had a Mission in Moscow. Or was he in the military British Expeditionary Force that occupied Archangel or Murmansk for a while in 1919-20? Dabbler 19:42, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

At first he was there to co-ordinate supplies to the white armies but later he trained troops for them prior to his capture. He was over in Vladivostock, so pretty far away from Archangel. I've been puzzling over how to get a lot of this stuff into the article without overloading it with anecdotes. Leithp 19:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)