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Alan Victor Harold Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke (24 November 1932 – 10 January 2018) was a British peer. Known to his family and friends as Victor Brooke or Victor Alanbrooke, he was the son of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke and his second wife Benita.
Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG, KStJ (born 30 June 1952) is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords; he sits as a crossbencher. He is the current Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh.
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.
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.
21 de mar. de 2022 · "For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883-1963), later Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war. He is commonly considered the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army.
10 de may. de 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. In this capacity, he was effectively the lead military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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. He was educated in France and at the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) and served in the Royal ...
