In the inter-war years he commanded the 17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and, later, the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment before becoming commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade and then General officer commanding (GOC), 8th Infantry Division.ĭuring the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, Montgomery commanded the British Eighth Army from August 1942, through the Second Battle of El Alamein and on to the final Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943. He also took part in the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917 before finishing the war as chief of staff of the 47th (2nd London) Division. On returning to the Western Front as a general staff officer, he took part in the Battle of Arras in April–May 1917. At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper, during the First Battle of Ypres. Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. ˈ æ l ə m eɪ n/ 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. From the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 20 December 1969 įield Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL ( / m ə n t ˈ ɡ ʌ m ər i .
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