Marshall Montgomerery’s posting to Cork recalled in rare photograph
One month after the burning of Cork by the Black and Tans in December 1920, the future Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery of El Alamein was appointed brigade major of the British Army’s 17th Infantry Brigade stationed in the city.
Monty is the officer at the centre of this very rare c1921 photograph taken in front of a Cork Physiology college building with about 40 uniformed British soldiers.
