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SIR BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY

Name:Bernard Law Montgomery                                                         
Born:17 November 1887                                                               
Died: 24 March 1976                                                                 
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG,       
GCB, DSO, PC ( 17 November 1887-24 March 1976),                                     
often referred to as "Monty", was a British Army officer. He successfully           
commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in       
the Western Desert Campaign during World War II, and troops under his command       
were partially responsible for the expulsion of Axis forces from North Africa.       
He was later a prominent commander in Italy and North-West Europe, where he was     
in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord until after the     
Battle of Normandy.                                                                 
Montgomery was born in Kennington, London in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to     
an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, Rev. Henry Montgomery. The Montgomery family         
came from Moville, County Donegal, near Derry, and maintained their home, New       
Park, there. Montgomery considered himself Irish and a County Donegal man.[1] In     
1889, the family moved with his father when he was made Bishop of Tasmania. His     
father was kind, but ineffectual in the house, and often away on missionary work.   
His mother, ill-tempered, allowed her husband 10 shillings a week from his           
salary and beat her children. Montgomery said that he had an unhappy childhood,     
often clashing with his mother and becoming the black sheep of the family to         
such an extent that he declined to go to his mother's funeral. His father died       
at Moville in 1932.