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Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944.
Jun 13, 2024 · Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (born July 23, 1883, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France—died June 17, 1963, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England) was a British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II.
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Oct 13, 2023 · Alan Francis Brooke (later 1st Viscount Alanbrooke) had a long and prestigious military career. Beginning his service in the Royal Artillery during the First World War (1914-18), he is perhaps best known for his crucial role in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940.
Brooke, Alan Francis, first Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), army officer, was born at Bagnères de Bigorre, France, on 23 July 1883, the ninth and youngest child and sixth son of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, third baronet (1843–1891), of Colebrooke in co. Fermanagh, and his wife, Alice Sophia Bellingham (d. 1920), second daughter of Sir ...
May 18, 2018 · Considered a master strategist, Alan Francis Brooke (1883-1963) was instrumental in orchestrating the victory of Allied forces in the Second World War. As chief of the Imperial General Staff, Brooke was the chief military spokesman for the British government and the Allies.
The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. Viscount Alanbrooke, of Brookeborough in the County of Fermanagh, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 January 1946 for Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Baron Alanbrooke.
May 10, 2021 · Born into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Alan Brooke, or 1 Viscount Alanbrooke as he was also known, was both the head of the British Army (the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, or CIGS) and the chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee.
