Major-General George Warren Richards CB, CBE, DSO, MC (1898–1978) was a British Army officer.
[2] Attached tp the Machine Gun Corps,[1] he saw action at the Battle of Aleppo in October 1918 in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War.
[1] He became commanding officer of the 49th Royal Tank Regiment at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire in August 1940.
In early 1941 he was sent to North Africa where he served as a staff officer with the 7th Armoured Division during Operations 'Battleaxe' and 'Crusader'.
[3] He then became Major-General Royal Armoured Corps for 21st Army Group in 1944 and took part in the Normandy landings and the advance into North West Europe.