Churchill's chief military advisor in WW2. Born (and brought up) in France as Alan Brooke into the Irish aristocracy. Entered the army aged 18 and served in Ireland and India and then in WW1, in France. Married twice, his first wife dying in 1925 in a car crash in which he was driving. In WW2 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and then Field Marshal. As a keen ornithologist he was president of the Zoological Society of London 1950 - 1954 and vice-president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Died at home in Hampshire.
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Field Marshal, First Viscount Alanbrooke
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Alanbrooke statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke {Right s...
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Sir Cloudesly Shovell
Admiral of the Fleet. Born Norfolk. Died when shipwrecked on the Isles of Scilly.
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Charles de Gaulle
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. President of France 1958-69. Just like Queen Wilhelmina, while in London he used the BBC to send popular messages of resistan...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
5 memorials
Arthur Sullivan, VC
Banker and soldier. Born Arthur Percy Sullivan at Crystal Brook, South Australia. As a volunteer in the North Russia Relief Force in 1919, his platoon came under heavy fire. An officer and three so...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
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