Alan Brooke 1st Viscount Alanbrooke Military person

Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963) was a senior commander in the British Army. He was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal in 1944. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and in the role of co-ordinator of the British military efforts was an extremely important but not always well-known contributor to the Allies' victory in 1945. After retiring from the army, he served as Lord High Constable of England during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His war diaries attracted attention for their criticism of Churchill and for Brooke's forthright views on other leading figures of the war.

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Birth date	July 23, 1883
Birth place	Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Date of death	June 17, 1963
Place of death	Hampshire , Hartley Wintney
Resting place	Hartley Wintney

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allegiance	United Kingdom
award	Order of the Redeemer Order of the Garter Order of Suvorov
military operations	World War I
military branch	British Army
military command	School of Artillery (1929–1932)8th Infantry Brigade (1934–1935)Mobile Division (1937) Southern Command (1939)II Corps (1939–1940) GHQ Home Forces (1940–1941)CIGS (1941–1946)
service start	1902
service end	1946