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4 unusual facts about Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke


Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke

Lord Alanbrooke lives in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, Great Britain, where his father Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is buried.

Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883-1963) was also a member of the same family.

Evelyn Wrench

She was the daughter of Sir Victor Brooke, Bt., sister of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, and widow of Frederick Henry Arthur des Vouex.

Hobart's Funnies

Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke made the decision in 1943 to create these new units.


Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke

Captain The Rt. Hon. Alan Victor Harold Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke, RA (born 24 November 1932), is a British peer.

Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt., DL (born 30 June 1952), is a Northern Irish peer and landowner.

Cardiff East by-election, 1942

In this role he worked closely and effectively with Sir Alan Brooke the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and in 1942, in an unorthodox move, the Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Grigg Secretary of State for War as a replacement for David Margesson whom he dismissed after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese.

Lord-in-Waiting

For instance, on 23 May 2011, when Barack Obama travelled to the United Kingdom from Ireland one day earlier than had originally been planned, he was greeted by the Lord in Waiting Viscount Brookeborough, who met him on behalf of the Queen.

Malpas, Newport

The roads in Woodlands are named after World War II generals, e.g. Allenbrooke Avenue, Horrocks Close, Montgomery Road, Robertson Way, Wavell Drive, etc.

Victor Brooke

He was the father of Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, and grandfather of Sir Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland


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