- For his victory against the Axis forces led by the German General Erwin Rommel in North Africa at the Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942, he was named First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
- British Army Field Marshall.
- Was the honorary chairman of the English football team Portsmouth FC, a club he took to follow as his own while his HQ was posted near the city of Portsmouth during WW2.
- In late 1947 he visited eleven countries in Africa. As Chief of the Imperial Defence Staff in 1948, Montgomery secretly submitted a serious plan to turn the continent into a white supremacist bulwark against the "very great potential danger" of a well-organized and growing Communist movement in Africa. The plan was disavowed by the Attlee government.
- The son of an Anglican bishop, he did not smoke, drink, or swear.
- He did not attend his mother's funeral.
- He maintained Operation Market Garden had been mostly successful. It is widely regarded as a complete failure and one of the last German victories in World War II.
- Montgomery was criticized for being too cautious in exploiting his success at El Alamein, although the battle made him a household name and he became Britain's most popular general of World War II.
- When he was nearly 60 years old he became a close friend of an 11-year-old Swiss boy named Lucien Felix Trueb. The closeness of the friendship gradually declined as Trueb reached puberty.
- He was widely condemned for allowing the Axis forces to escape after the Second Battle of El Alamein had ended in November 1942.
- He suffered a heart attack in 1970, from which he never recovered.
- He was a major supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa.
- His defenders maintain he was unfairly blamed for the failure of Operation Market Garden. Montgomery had designed the original plan for the operation, but it was then radically changed by the Americans.
- Several biographers have suggested his strange behavior was due to having a high-functioning form of autism.
- Visited Egypt on the 25th Anniversary of the British victory against German forces at El-Alamein in 1967 and advised the senior Egyptian military core that their preparations for any future conflict were insufficient. The assessment proved correct as Egypt was decisively beaten by a numerically inferior Israel the same year in The Six Day War.
- To the astonishment of most, Montgomery praised controversial American General George Patton's ability to lead troops on the battlefield if not his strategic judgment on the eve of Patton's death in December 1945. Montgomery and Patton had been at loggerheads with each other since their joint campaign in Sicily.
- Overall ground commander of all Allied Forces which landed on Normandy beach on 6th June, 1944, code named Operation Overlord.
- Had a long stand disliking for fellow British Army Field Marshall Harold Alexander. Did not hold Dwight Eisenhower in good regard either, once commenting that Eisenhower was "a nice chap but no General".
- Had two puppies named Hitler and Rommel, with whom he usually played in his mobile headquarters when not on the front.
- Had assured his one time deputy General John Crocker that he will be appointed as Chief of The Imperial General Staff at the end of Montgomery's tenure. To his great shock, General William Slim, the heroic commander of the British 14th Army in Burma was bought out of retirement, promoted to Field Marshall and appointed Chief Of The Imperial General Staff. Although Montgomery tried his best to argue in Crocker's favor stating he had already "told" Crocker would be his successor, the Defense Ministry simply instructed him to "untell" Crocker.
- When he assumed charge of the British Eight Army in Egypt post Lieutenant General William Gott's death in a plane crash, he is said to have remarked "Since things were going easier as of now, they shall start getting tough". A subordinate tried to cheer Montgomery up to which he replied "I am not talking about myself, I am talking about Rommel !!!".
- There was much speculation over his extremely close friendships with prepubescent boys.
- Many suspect that Montgomery deliberately made his appearances seem clownish just to gain attention since he neither had "the bulldog features of Alan Brooke or the handsome charisma of Harold Alexander".
- WW2 time British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once commented on Montgomery as "In defeat, insufferable. In victory, intolerable".
- In his book "Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble", historian Antony Beevor argued that Montgomery had Asperger's Syndrome. Montgomery's step-grandson, Tom Carver, who knew him very well, agreed. In an interview with BBC Radio's Today, Carver said, "It certainly resonates. There was a duality in the strange way he dealt with people.".
- He failed to catch up with Rommel during a three month pursuit, despite the fact that the Axis forces were exhausted and out of supplies.
- Marshall of the Royal Air Force Arthur Tedder, in his capacity as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for the European Theatre of Operations in World War 2, was so infuriated at the failure of Operation Market Garden that he openly called for Montgomery to be relieved of his command of the British 21st Army Group.
- In a 2002 poll conducted by BBC, Montgomery was voted as the 88th greatest Briton of all-time. He was the only British commander from World War 2 to feature on the list.
- Deputy Supreme Commander of NATO, 1951 to 1958. It was also the last command position held by him.
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