Europe in the form of being appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau with Swords. In 1948 Montgomery recommended Crocker to be his successor as CIGS, but the then Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, appointed the better-known and more senior General Sir William Slim, who had commanded the Fourteenth Army in the Burma Campaign during the war, much to Montgomery's annoyance. Crocker's most important postwar contribution was to write the training manuals that laid down the British Army's doctrine of armoured warfare through the years of the Cold War. Crocker held a number of honorary appointments throughout the postwar years, including Aide de Camp to the King (1948 to 1951), Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment (1949), and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Armoured Corps (1949). After retiring he became vice-chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission and Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, a position he held from 1961 until his death on 9 March 1963 at the relatively young age of sixty-seven. He was also a Member of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation. Not much of a talker Douglas E. Delaney writes that References Bibliography External links British Army Officers 1939–1945 Generals of World War II |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1896 births 1963 deaths Artists' Rifles soldiers British Army generals of World War II British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel of the Palestine Emergency Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Graduates of the Staff College, Quetta Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Lord-Lieutenants of Middlesex Machine Gun Corps officers Middlesex Regiment officers People from Catford People from Lewisham Recipients of the Military Cross Royal Tank Regiment officers Military personnel from London