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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/ m ə n t ˈ ɡ ʌ m ər i ... ˈ æ l ə m eɪ n /; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.
Major John William Poston MC & Bar (1919 [1] – 21 April 1945) (son of Colonel William John Lloyd Poston, D.S.O., and of Marjorie Blanch Poston née Dalglish, of Barnes, Surrey [2]) was a cavalry officer of the British Army best known for serving as the Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery from his North African Campaign to the final week of war in Europe.
The viscountcy was created in 1946 for the military commander Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, [1] commemorating his crucial victory in the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October–3 November 1942) (named after a minor railway halt marking the allied defence line), which sealed the fate of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps.
Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery with his only son David. Montgomery was the only child of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a senior military commander in the Second World War, and his wife Elizabeth Carver, née Hobart. [2] [3] He had two older half brothers from his mother's previous marriage, John and Dick ...
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army.He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944.
The GOC XXX Corps, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks is made a Commander of Order of the Bath and receives the Distinguished Service Order from George VI during an investiture at the headquarters of the commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, 15 October 1944. Field Marshal Montgomery is in foreground.
Thus, references to him as "Montgomery-Massingberd" during the First World War are anachronistic. [21] The journalist and genealogist Hugh Massingberd was a great-nephew of both the field marshal and, independently, the field marshal's wife, and in 1963 he and his father also adopted the Massingberd name to inherit the same estates. [49]
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery personally awarded him the British Military Medal about a week later. [ 4 ] July 2023, Memorial Brick, National Museum of the United States Army , Fort Belvoir, VA November 2024, Philip's Grave, East Brunswick, NJ