Death of Montgomery

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Wed, 03/24/1976

The Field Marshal visiting the 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles at Bulford, 1966.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL died,aged 88, on 24 March 1976 at Isington Mill, his home in Isington, Hampshire. After a funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 'Monty' was buried in the Holy Cross churchyard, at Binsted, Hampshire.

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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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