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15-03-09, 07:21 PM
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Monty,at the end of his career.
A photograph showing FM Montgomery in the last days of his very long military career. I think this is an impressive array of decorations.
Jo http://images.google.com/hosted/life...22aac93f19aa38
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16-03-09, 03:24 AM
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A very good picture of an old soldier.
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17-03-09, 12:17 AM
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Monty
The world was a better place with him helping to fight the war. He was a good man!
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18-03-09, 08:04 PM
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Also interesting is the use of leather "football" buttons on tunic. Common affectation during the ww1 era and a practice I had thought more or less out by the end of the wwII.
Note the US ETO campaign ribbon with 5 battle stars. Explain that one... CB
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18-03-09, 08:13 PM
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Interesting point for scutelliphiliacs
Who was the scutelliphiliac who cut Monty's hair?
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18-03-09, 08:57 PM
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19-03-09, 03:50 PM
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Interesting point for scutelliphiliacs
Yes Matti, he certainly was a scutelliphiliac, of King size proportions judging from the Bosley catalogues . . !
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31-01-10, 06:40 AM
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born in Tasmania my dad a fellow Tasmanian tells me
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31-01-10, 06:57 AM
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I once read a book about Monty, written by his brother. IIRC, according to this book, Monty tripped over his sword scabbard and fell flat on his face when he went into action in 1914. If it were not for that trip he would have been killed along with most of his platoon. In the "strange but true" section Monty was related to the spy Kim Philby. Monty was the Best Man at Philby's parents wedding in India before WW1.
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31-01-10, 02:05 PM
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Looks like FM Montgomery's "8" device on his Africa Star ribbon is upside down.
About 25 years ago I had the pleasure of visiting Hugh King at his home. He showed me a black beret with a single RTR capbadge on it along with a green beret with a hand made brass Combined Operations badge sewn to it. Both berets had printed nametags inside - "BL MONTGOMERY". The RTR beret was worn in his capacity as Colonel of the Regiment, and the green beret was a special presentation piece from Combined Operations. Phil Last edited by Phillip Herring; 02-02-10 at 11:32 AM.
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31-01-10, 02:10 PM
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About the "8" Good catch Phillip.
Jo
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01-02-10, 12:59 AM
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misquotes like mine are what happens when relying on childhood random memories
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01-02-10, 04:17 PM
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02-02-10, 12:24 AM
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He also names six "Anglo-Irish" Field-Marshalls from WW2: "Three, my brother, Sir John Dill and Lord Gort, came from what is now the Republic, and the other three, Lord Alexander, Lord Alanbrooke and Sir Claude Auchinleck, came from the six counties". "Monty" himself was born in London in 1887. His father, a churchman, was working in the capital prior to becoming Bishop of Tasmania in 1889. Source: A Field Marshall in the Family by Brian Montgomery. Pub. Constable, London, 1973.
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