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Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery.
London 1887-1976.Hampshire.
His father a Bishop with prayer in mind
but Monty's thoughts were war inclined
different they were as chalk and cheese
with driving ambition ways to succeed
St .Paul’s in London Monty's chosen school
Impish, playful, but nobodies fool
Sandhurst academy he eventually went
The Warwick’s Reg. he began his ascent
Off to India to assist the Raj
his five years there he didn't enlarge
1914 he returned to these shores
eagerly entering Europe's wars
Badly wounded in a machine gun tirade
a young medic came to his aide
a snipers bullet hit the medics head
falling on Monty instantly dead
The young medic Monty claimed
saved his life as the sniper aimed
two years in hospital Monty spent
then returned to this ghastly event
Surviving this war with great valour
he then addressed the Second World War
on Dunkirk beaches on the retreat
to blitzkrieg tactics he conceded defeat
Learning from this traumatic event
to African deserts he next was sent
a man named Rommel was in command
ruling the roost in this desert land
Methodically assembling all he could get
leaving nothing to chance with this little bet
with set piece tactics and classical war
he relieved Gen.Rommel of his African tour
Now the world looked with the greatest of awe
but one more battle he would lose in this war
Like Wellington before him he had found
his own ideas were most profound
Alas on D Day he was not selected
although on all sides most respected
the great American Eisenhower
was elected to lead this finest hour
After the war he settled down
not to far from a Hampshire town
he bought a mill on the river Wey
In Binstead church yard his body does lay.
Jobee.
Arnem-Market garden, he must have known those two divisions of tanks were there.
They had been seen on the streets of Arnem for weeks before the attack.
Info Arnem vets.
Monty took full responsibility for Market Garden, he just never said that it was an unmittigated disaster. He always maintained that it could have worked but didn't recieve enough support. Carlo D'Este states that Montgomery's admission of failure was unique: "the only admission of falure by a senior Allied Commander."
Montgomery himself said of Market Garden: "It was a bad mistake on my part – I underestimated the difficulties of opening up the approaches to Antwerp ... I reckoned the Canadian Army could do it while we were going for the Ruhr. I was wrong
London 1887-1976.Hampshire.
His father a Bishop with prayer in mind
but Monty's thoughts were war inclined
different they were as chalk and cheese
with driving ambition ways to succeed
St .Paul’s in London Monty's chosen school
Impish, playful, but nobodies fool
Sandhurst academy he eventually went
The Warwick’s Reg. he began his ascent
Off to India to assist the Raj
his five years there he didn't enlarge
1914 he returned to these shores
eagerly entering Europe's wars
Badly wounded in a machine gun tirade
a young medic came to his aide
a snipers bullet hit the medics head
falling on Monty instantly dead
The young medic Monty claimed
saved his life as the sniper aimed
two years in hospital Monty spent
then returned to this ghastly event
Surviving this war with great valour
he then addressed the Second World War
on Dunkirk beaches on the retreat
to blitzkrieg tactics he conceded defeat
Learning from this traumatic event
to African deserts he next was sent
a man named Rommel was in command
ruling the roost in this desert land
Methodically assembling all he could get
leaving nothing to chance with this little bet
with set piece tactics and classical war
he relieved Gen.Rommel of his African tour
Now the world looked with the greatest of awe
but one more battle he would lose in this war
Like Wellington before him he had found
his own ideas were most profound
Alas on D Day he was not selected
although on all sides most respected
the great American Eisenhower
was elected to lead this finest hour
After the war he settled down
not to far from a Hampshire town
he bought a mill on the river Wey
In Binstead church yard his body does lay.
Jobee.
Arnem-Market garden, he must have known those two divisions of tanks were there.
They had been seen on the streets of Arnem for weeks before the attack.
Info Arnem vets.
Monty took full responsibility for Market Garden, he just never said that it was an unmittigated disaster. He always maintained that it could have worked but didn't recieve enough support. Carlo D'Este states that Montgomery's admission of failure was unique: "the only admission of falure by a senior Allied Commander."
Montgomery himself said of Market Garden: "It was a bad mistake on my part – I underestimated the difficulties of opening up the approaches to Antwerp ... I reckoned the Canadian Army could do it while we were going for the Ruhr. I was wrong
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