Alan Brooke

Field Marshall Sir Alan Francis Brooke KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO (July 23rd 1883 - June 17th 1963), baron Alanbrooke and 1st Alanbrooke Viscount, was a British Field Marshall during the Second world war.

Born with Bagnères-with-Bigorre in a family from Northern Ireland, Alan Brooke was educated in France where it passed the majority of its childhood. It went to the Royal Military University of Woolwich. During the First World War, it was useful in France with Royal Artillery, finishing the conflict as a Lieutenant-colonel. Between the wars he was lecturer at the University of the Personnel of Camberley and at the Imperial University of Defense where he worked with the majority of the principal British officers of the Second world war.

After the beginning of the Second world war, Brooke ordered the Second Body of the British Force Expeditionary and played an important role in the evacuation of the allied troops of Dunkirk. In July 1940, it was named with the ordering of the United Kingdom Home Forces and in December 1941 promoted Chief off the Imperial General Staff (IGC) and President of the Chiefs off Staff Committee, a station which it will hold until in 1946.

In this role, Brooke was used of first military adviser with the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, for the Cabinet of war and with combined of the United Kingdom. Like IGC, Brooke was the functional head of the army, and with the head of the Chiefs off Staff Committee, it was responsible for the total strategic direction of the effort of war. Brooke was seen offering the command of the British forces in the the Middle East, which he refused, thinking that he was to remain with the the United Kingdom to prevent Churchill from carrying out the country in all the hazardous military adventures.

In 1942, Brooke joined the final command of the Western allies, the Chief off the Imperial General Staff américano-British with Washington.

It later bitter and was disappointed not to have been selected to direct the allied invasion of Western Europe, in favor of the Général American Eisenhower.

In 2001, the publication of its memories of war War Diaries not censured of Alan brooke brings on a vision day per day of the effort of British war and, sometimes, of criticisms direct in connection with Winston Churchill and other characters important.

It is buried in its village of Hartley Wintney in the Hampshire where the last heir (3rd Alanbrooke Viscount) also saw. At its death in 1963, the field of Alanbrooke was estimated at £50 580 (either approximately £700 000 in 2006).

Decorations

Brooke was indicated Baron Alanbrooke (what is a creation), of Brookeborough, Comté of Fermanagh, in 1945, and Vicomte Alanbrooke in 1946.

Distinguished Service Order with the First World War,
Order of the Bath in 1940,
Knight about the Jumper
Member of the Order of Merit in 1946,
the Order of the Bath in 1953
and GCVO in 1953.

It also was used Chancelier as Université with the Université Queen' S of Belfast of 1949 until its death.

It also has its own blazon. See

External bonds

War Diaries - London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001 -

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