Horrocks Block [SEP] continent
Horrocks Block
Horrocks Block () is a large rectangular outcrop that is composed mainly of sandstone, lying on the north side of Venus Glacier, southwest of the Keystone Cliffs, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with Venus Glacier after Jeremiah Horrocks, the British astronomer who predicted and first
Oct 1941 Lieutenant-General Vyvyan Pope
- Nov 1941 – Jul 1942 Lieutenant-General Willoughby Norrie
- Jul–Sep 1942 Lieutenant-General William Ramsden
- Sep 1942 – Dec 1943 Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese
- Jan–Jul 1944 Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall
- Aug 1944 – Dec 1945 Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
- Dec 1945 – Sep 1946 Lieutenant-General Alexander Galloway
See also.
- Battle of Gazala
References.
- Forty, George, "British Army Handbook