Clan Montgomery
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Clan Montgomery is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands.
Eglinton Castle built around 1800, behind the Tournament Bridge of 1845.
The signature of the Earl of Eglintoun in 1642.
The 1764 coat of arms of the Montgomerys, Earls of Eglinton.
Bernard Montgomery
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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence, and the Second World War.
Clan Montgomery
…for his Royalist sympathies in 1659. In 1628 another branch of the Scottish Montgomeries settled in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland and 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein came from this line. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Montgomeries served abroad in Continental armies, including those of Sweden…
Montgomery in 1943
Captain Bernard Montgomery (right) with Brigadier-General J. W. Sandilands, commander of the 104th Brigade, 35th Division. Montgomery served as brigade major with the 104th Brigade from January 1915 until early 1917.
The Minister of Munitions, Winston Churchill, watching the march past of the 47th (2nd London) Division in the Grande Place, Lille, France, October 1918. In front of him is the 47th Division's GSO1, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Montgomery.
Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke, GOC II Corps, with Major-General Bernard Montgomery, GOC 3rd Division, and Major-General Dudley Johnson, GOC 4th Infantry Division, pictured here in either 1939 or 1940