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    Bernard Montgomery

    British Army officer

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  1. His wife Betty Carver died in 1937. [260] His Garter banner, which had hung in St. George's Chapel in Windsor during his lifetime, is now on display in St Mary's, Warwick. [261] Montgomery's grave, Holy Cross churchyard, Binsted. Montgomery's Garter banner on display in St Mary's, Warwick.

  2. Oct 29, 2009 · In 1927, at age thirty-nine, he married a war widow, Betty Carver, who tragically died of a rare blood infection in 1937. Monty never recovered, throwing himself even more fiercely into...

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  4. Bernard Law Montgomery was born in London in 1887. After attending the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Early in the First World War (1914-18), he was shot through the lung by a sniper during the First Battle of Ypres (1914). His wound was so severe that a grave was prepared for him.

  5. Oct 4, 2016 · Bernard Law Montgomery was born November 17th, 1887 in Kensington, a district in Central London. He was fourth out of a total of nine children of whom seven survived. His father, Henry Montgomery was the Anglican priest in St. Mark’s Church in Kensington. Montgomery’s mother Maud Farrar was 18 years younger than her husband.

  6. Jul 1, 2019 · Born in Kennington, London in 1887, Bernard Montgomery was the son of Reverend Henry Montgomery and his wife Maud, and the grandson of noted colonial administrator Sir Robert Montgomery. One of nine children, Montgomery spent his early years at the family's ancestral home of New Park in Northern Ireland before his father was made Bishop of ...

  7. Oct 3, 2023 · Here Is Why. Feature. Montgomery Was One of World War II’s Best Leaders. Here Is Why. Bernard Montgomery became a master of the art of military leadership and command. It’s about time history recognized it. by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 10/3/2023. Monty wears the robes of the Order of the Garter in 1953.

  8. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General", was a British Army officer. Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, the Reverend Henry Montgomery, and his wife ...