Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976):

This British military leader was very influential in the British victory in North Africa. He was appointed commander of the British military forces in 1942, and within two months he turned the British armies onto the offensive at El 'Alamein, and drove out Rommel's Afrika Korps from Africa. After the African campaign, he was promoted to commander in chief of the British forces on the western front. In 1946 he was given nobility status as a viscount. He then went on to become deputy supreme commander of NATO forces from 1951 to 1958.

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