 Complete the following phrase:  In March 1942, the division also gained a new General Officer Commanding GOC in the form of Major-General Ivor Thomas. Thomas was a decorated officer who had served as a young battery commander in the Royal Artillery on the Western Front during the First World War where he was twice wounded and awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order. He would command the 43rd Division until September 1945. Thomas was an effective but hard-driving commander, humourless and not universally liked, sometimes known as Butcher, or more jocularly by Lt-Gen Brian Horrocks and others as Von Thoma, after the German Lt-Gen Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma captured after the 