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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

(1887-1976), Field Marshal

Sitter in 50 portraits
'Monty', as he was nicknamed, served during the First and Second World Wars. He was awarded the DSO after the first Battle of Ypres in 1914, in which he had been left for dead, and continued in active service on the Somme and at Passchendaele. In 1942 he took command of the Eighth Army, and at El Alamein in North Africa he secured victory over General Rommel. He commanded Allied ground forces during the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe, launched in June 1944.

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, July 1939
NPG x163247

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, copied December 1941
NPG x4647

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 8 October 1947
NPG x189090

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 8 October 1947
NPG x189091

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 8 October 1947
NPG x189092

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 8 October 1947
NPG x27463

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97029

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97030

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97031

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97032

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97033

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
whole-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97034

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
half-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97036

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
half-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97037

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Navana Vandyk
half-plate film negative, 22 March 1948
NPG x97038

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage colour snapshot print, September 1954
NPG x136186

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

probably by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, September 1954
NPG x136189

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Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage colour snapshot print, September 1955
NPG x136162

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