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    Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/məntˈɡʌməri ... ˈæləmeɪn/; 17 November 1887 – 24 March...
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    David Bernard Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, CMG, CBE (18 August 1928 – 8 January 2020) was a British politician and businessman. He...
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    Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium. It is named in honour of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War,...
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  • quotes. Soldier M. E. Clifton James successfully impersonated General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") for intelligence purposes during World War II. In 1940,...
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    British Eighth Army in 1942, Brooke preferred Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery (Montgomery was both Brooke's ex-pupil and his protégé ) instead of Lieutenant-General...
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    become extinct. Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976) David Bernard Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1928–2020)...
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    commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. General Bernard Montgomery was named commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all land...
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    commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, and General Bernard Montgomery was named commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all the...
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    23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river...
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    The statue of Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein is located outside the Ministry of Defence Main Building in Whitehall, London, United...
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    Walter Model). In the north, the Allied 21st Army Group (Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery) crossed the Rhine in Operation Plunder on 23 March. The lead elements...
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    as Clifton James, who acted as a double for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during World War II. Some look-alikes who have resembled celebrities...
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    Summer Time, at Lüneburg Heath, south of Hamburg, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands...
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    France, the first time he served under Bernard Montgomery, the most prominent British commander of the war. Montgomery later identified Horrocks as one of...
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    Alamein in October 1942 when the Eighth Army (Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery) defeated the German–Italian Panzerarmee Afrika and forced its remnants...
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    II all British troops wore the coat, among them Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David Sterling. After the war, the coats...
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    contact with Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery, who was then serving under his command as GOC of V Corps. Montgomery and Auchinleck had never seen eye-to-eye...
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    Miles Dempsey, made up the 21st Army Group, commanded by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. On June 10, 1944, four days after the initial Normandy landings,...
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    Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over questions of strategy...
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    national interest. Freyberg enjoyed a good relationship with General Bernard Montgomery, the Eighth Army commander from August 1942, who thought highly of...
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    World War II Bernard Mohlalisi (1933–2020), Mosotho Roman Catholic bishop Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976), English military officer Bernard Opper (1915–2000)...
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    the Rhine (BAOR). Commanded by General (later Field Marshal) Sir Bernard Montgomery, 21st Army Group initially controlled all ground forces in Operation...
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  • Churchill (film) (category Cultural depictions of Bernard Montgomery)
    Slattery as General Dwight D. Eisenhower Julian Wadham as General Bernard Montgomery Richard Durden as General Jan Smuts Ella Purnell as Helen Garrett...
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    to replace him as commander of the Eighth Army. Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery was appointed and led the Eighth Army offensive. The Allied victory...
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    (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion...
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of (1972). A Concise History of Warfare. Collins. p. 132. Alamein (Viscount), Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of...
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  • Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976) was a British Army general who commanded British forces in World War II. General Montgomery may also refer to: Alexander...
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  • Bernard Montgomery Muir (born July 22, 1968) is an American college athletics administrator who is currently the athletic director at Stanford University...
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    Marshal Bernard Montgomery was made military governor of the British occupation zone with Brian Robertson as Chief of Staff and Montgomery's deputy. Both...
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    Clan Montgomery (also Montgomerie) is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The Montgomeries emigrated from Wales to Scotland in the 12th century...
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