John Churcher

Major General John Bryan Churcher CB DSO & Bar (1905 - 2 August 1997) was a British Army officer 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 1st Battalion the Hereford Regiment and then as Commander of 159th Brigade serving in North-West Europe. After the War he became General Officer Commanding 43rd Division. He was appointed General Officer Commanding 5th 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. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 3rd 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.