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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

1883 - 1963

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Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944. Brooke trained as an artillery officer and became Commandant of the School of Artillery, Larkhill in 1929. He held various divisional and corps level commands before the Second World War and became C-in-C Home Forces in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is the 1,483rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,590th in 2019), the 3,657th most popular biography from France (up from 3,827th in 2019) and the 129th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 1,483 out of 2,058. Before him are Dobromir Chrysos, Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Momčilo Perišić, Sittas, Leo Phokas the Younger, and Pavel Chichagov. After him are Kijirō Nambu, Alexander of Lyncestis, Sergei Khudyakov, Tzachas, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Carl Johan Adlercreutz.

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Among people born in 1883, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 161. Before him are Huang Fu, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Maximilian Steinberg, Fritz Platten, Demyan Bedny, and Paul Götz. After him are Maurice Feltin, Jens Hundseid, Arnold Bax, Max Horton, Oszkár Gerde, and Pavel Filonov. Among people deceased in 1963, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 115. Before him are Mary Agnes Chase, James Kirkwood Sr., Patsy Cline, Benjamin Jones, Erik Lundqvist, and József Nagy. After him are Jens Hundseid, Lisa Tetzner, Barnum Brown, Woldemar Hägglund, Benny Moré, and Margaret Murray.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 3,657 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Étaix (1928), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Charles Renard (1847), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Louis-Marie Billé (1938), and Jules Émile Planchon (1823). After him are Maurice Feltin (1883), Adrien René Franchet (1834), Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), and Émile Duclaux (1840).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ranks 129. Before him are Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642), François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency (1595), François Séverin Marceau (1769), Louis Faidherbe (1818), and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729). After him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770), Charles-Denis Bourbaki (1816), Adolphe Niel (1802), Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), and Jean Decoux (1884).

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