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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.
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 insignia. HH Abbas I Hilmi Pasha (1813–1854) HH Ibrahim Pasha (1789–1848) Yahya Mansur Yeghen (1837–1913) Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) 20 December 1914 - HH Sultan Hussein Kamel (1853–1917) HM King Fuad I (1868–1936) 'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri (1879–1965) HM King Farouk (1920–1965) 1949 - HM King Abdullah I of ...
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt (12 December 1875 – 24 February 1953) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany and Oberbefehlshaber West (High Commander in the West) during World War II. At the end of the war, aged 69, with over 52 years of service, he was the Army's most senior officer.
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
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
The bronze plinth's front reads: "Monty, Field Marshal, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG GCB DSO, 1887–1976." The back reads: [2] 1942–44, Commander, 8th Army North Africa & Italy 1944–45, C in C, 21st Army Group, North West Europe 1946–48, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1951–58, Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe