page_title: Bernard Montgomery
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Montgomery / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Garter-encircled coat of arms of Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, viz. Azure two lions passant guardant between three fleur-de-lis two in chief and one in base and two trefoils in fess all or.
context_page_description: Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL, nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First World War and the Second World War.
  Montgomery first saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper, during the First Battle of Ypres. On returning to the Western Front as a general staff officer, he took part in the Battle of Arras in April/May 1917. He also took part in the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917 before finishing the war as chief of staff of the 47th Division.
  In the inter-war years he commanded the 17th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and, later, the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment before becoming commander of 9th Infantry Brigade and then General officer commanding 8th Infantry Division.
  During the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, Montgomery commanded the British Eighth Army from August 1942, through the Second Battle of El Alamein and on to the final Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943.
context_section_description: Viscountcy as Montgomery of Alamein (UK, January 1946)
  Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (UK, 1946)
  Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (UK, 1945) KCB – 11 November 1942, CB – 11 July 1940
  Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (UK, 1914)
  Mentioned in Despatches (UK, 17 February 1915, 4 January 1917, 11 December 1917, 20 May 1918, 20 December 1918, 5 July 1919, 15 July 1939, 24 June 1943, 13 January 1944)
  Distinguished Service Medal (US, 1947)
  Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit (US, 10 August 1943)
  Member of the Order of Victory (USSR, 21 June 1945)
  1st class of the Order of Suvorov (USSR, 16 January 1947)
  Croix de Guerre (France, 1919)
  Knight of the Order of the Elephant (Denmark, 2 August 1945)
  Grand Commander of the Order of George I (Greece, 20 June 1944)
  Silver Cross (V Class) of the Virtuti Militari (Poland, 31 October 1944)
  Grand Cross of the Military Order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia, 1947)
  Grand Cordon of the Seal of Solomon (Ethiopia, 1949)
  Grand Officer with Palm of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1947)
  Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (Belgium)
  Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands, 16 January 1947)
  Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (Norway) (1951)
  Viscount Montgomery's ribbons as they would appear today, not including campaign or other awards.
caption: Garter-encircled coat of arms of Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, viz. Azure two lions passant guardant between three fleur-de-lis two in chief and one in base and two trefoils in fess all or.
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