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message: The sentence "Brooke’s focus was primarily on the European theatre of operations." Should be "Brooke's focus was primarily on the Mediterranean theatre of operations."  He was consistently opposed to operations both in NW Europe, Southern France, and the Cross Channel attack, generally.  "War Diaries, 1939*1945 Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke"  Danchev and Todman (editors) University of California Press, c.1957, 1959, 2001. pgs 419-420 specifically and throughout.Thomas9070 (talk) 18:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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message: He was also a noted ornithologist; I'll dig out some material, unless someone else can do so more quickly. Andy Mabbett 23:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: Have added a reference to Brooke's famously scathing view of the French army i 1939-40, though sadly I don't have the complete quote in front of me. It's perfectly well-known, but the interesting question is: was it written at the time or with hindsight?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.192.0.10 (talk) 16:16, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone know why he chose to combine his first name and surname into his title? It's an unusual thing to do -- are there any other examples of people doing this? cagliost (talk) 10:14, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It was to keep the name Alan Brooke alive, and to distinguish it from any other Lords Brooke. I think it's mentioned in Philip Ziegler's biography of Mountbatten (Mountbatten chose "Mountbatten of Burma" rather than being simply "of Burma" to keep the Mountbatten name, as the title was to be inherited by his daughter, whose surname changed on marriage). Duncan Sandys did much the same thing for his life peerage, as there was already a Lord Sandys, and also George Brown. DuncanHill (talk) 10:20, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Other examples of hyphenated titles combining first names and surnames are Lord Noel-Buxton (who I believe may have been the first to do this, in 1930), Lord Courtauld-Thomson, Lord Francis-Williams, Lord Elwyn-Jones, Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Lord Geoffrey-Lloyd, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Harmar-Nicholls, Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, Lord John-Mackie (whose younger brother was already Lord Mackie of Benshie), Lord Elystan-Morgan, Lord Merlyn-Ress and Lord Russell-Johnston. The Alanbrooke approach of actually merging the words is much more rare. The only other direct example I'm aware of is Lord Normanbrook. (Perhaps there's something about the surname Brook(e)? It does make the new merged word look like it could be a place name, in a way that Geoffreylloyd or Johnmackie could never manage.) A similar process created the Viscountcy and Barony of Leverhulme: the grantee's surname was Lever, and his wife's surname was Hulme. (As with Alanbrooke and Normanbrook, Leverhulme looks like it could conceivably be a place name. I don't think Viscount Smithjones would have had quite the same reception!) Proteus (Talk) 12:09, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've come across another example: Lord Roberthall (formerly Sir Robert Hall). Proteus (Talk) 10:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. You just think there'd be rules about that sort of thing. Nope.Venqax (talk) 20:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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