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Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery ()
Bernard Montgomery ©Montgomery was the most well-known British general of World War Two, famous for his victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November He was nicknamed 'Monty'.
Bernard Law Montgomery was born on 17 November in London.
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He was educated at St Paul's School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in He was severely wounded early in World War One and spent the rest of war as a staff officer.
Between the wars he served in India, Egypt and Palestine.
In April , he was given command of the Third Division, part of the British Expeditionary Force which took part in the fighting preceding the Fall of France in June
He was rapidly promoted. In August , he was appointed commander of the Eighth Army, the British and Commonwealth forces fighting in the Western Desert.
He inspired a dispirited and defeated force to victory over the Germans and Italians at the Battle of El Alam