Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Military Person
1883 – 1963
Who was Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke?
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar, was a senior commander in the British Army. He was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal in 1944. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and in the role of co-ordinator of the British military efforts was an extremely important but not always well-known contributor to the Allies' victory in 1945. After retiring from the army, he served as Lord High Constable of England during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His war diaries attracted attention for their criticism of Churchill and for Brooke's forthright views on other leading figures of the war.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1883
Bagnères-de-Bigorre - Also known as
- Alan Francis Brooke
- Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
- Brookie
- Colonel Shrapnel
- Sir Alan Brooke
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jane Richardson
(1914 - 1925) - Benita Lees
(1929 - )
- Jane Richardson
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Royal Military Academy
- Died
- Jun 17, 1963
Hartley Wintney
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on July 23, 2013
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