When John Dill died on Nov. 4, 1944, it shook the upper echelons of the United States military, right up through Army Chief ...
Alamy After the war, Montgomery, by then a Field Marshal, was created a knight of the Garter and Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. It was on 15 September 1945 that Montgomery arrived in Derry to ...
In addition to being king of realm, he can now call himself field marshal of Australia’s army, marshal of its air force and admiral of the fleet. It was not a bad day’s work for the 75-year ...