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Bernard Montgomery

1887 - 1976

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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper, during the First Battle of Ypres. On returning to the Western Front as a general staff officer, he took part in the Battle of Arras in April–May 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Montgomery is the 8th most popular military personnel (up from 97th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 207th in 2019) and the most popular British Military Personnel.

Bernard Montgomery was a British field marshal who is most famous for commanding the Allied forces in North Africa and Europe during World War II.

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Among military personnels, Bernard Montgomery ranks 8 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Timur, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, and Karl Dönitz. After him are Adolf Eichmann, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Oda Nobunaga, Erwin Rommel, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Khalid ibn al-Walid.

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Among people born in 1887, Bernard Montgomery ranks 4. Before him are Le Corbusier, Chiang Kai-shek, and Erwin Schrödinger. After him are Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Among people deceased in 1976, Bernard Montgomery ranks 4. Before him are Mao Zedong, Agatha Christie, and Martin Heidegger. After him are Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Fritz Lang.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Montgomery ranks 50 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary I of England (1516), Charles Dickens (1812), Alan Turing (1912), Alexander Fleming (1881), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), and Thomas Hardy (1840). After him are James Cook (1728), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), and John Major (1943).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Bernard Montgomery ranks 1. After him are William Wallace (1270), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Hawkins (1532), Alexander Selkirk (1676), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), and Captain Tom (1920).

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