People from East Hampshire (District) - People from Alton, Hampshire, People from Liss, People from Newton Valence, People from Petersfield (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: People from Alton, Hampshire, People from Liss, People from Newton Valence, People from Petersfield, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, John Wyndham, Robert Bolt, Boris Karloff, Colin Firth, Richard Goodwin Keats, Alison Goldfrapp, Edmund Kean, Andrew Simmons, Anthony Norris Groves, Thomas D'Oyly Snow, Alexander William Bickerton, Arthur Brough, Catherine McCormack, Gilbert White, Harry Osman, Tony Rolt, Cliff Lazarenko, Ursula Moray Williams, Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, Stuart Piggott, Brian Timms, Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday, Mark Hamilton, Algernon Willis, Selwyn Jepson, Richard Vobes, Malcolm Nokes, Pete Wingfield, Loftus William Jones, Ellis Jones, John Murray, Samantha Warriner, William Cowper, Arthur Lee, John Goodyer, Ernest George Horlock, Bill Coldwell, Stuart Bonham Carter, John Candy, Tom Arnold, James Winter Scott, Spike Breakwell, Lothian Bonham-Carter, Wilfred Brown, Aeone, George Underdown, William Dodd, Arthur Lyttelton, David Greetham, Edward Newton, Edward Kelsey, Arthur Wood, John Dunt, Erica Roe, Jonathan Norris, David Hughes, Gary Bond, John Bonham-Carter, Simon Ings, Cecil Andrews, Theodore Thomson Flynn, Adam de Gurdon, John Pitts, Richard Purchase, Percy Andrews, John Worlidge. Excerpt: Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 - 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty," was a British Army officer. He saw action in the First World War, when he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the 8th Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia. This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign. He subsequently commanded Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy before being given responsibil...