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Alan Francis Brooke Brooke, 1st
History of Great Britain
1935
Major
London
Appointed Major-General
1936
Director Military Training Brooke
London
Appointed
Director
of
Military
Training
1937
Commander
London
Appointed
Commander
of the
Mobile
Division
1938
Commander
Appointed
Commander
of the Anti-Aircraft Corps
1938
Lieutenant
London
Appointed
Lieutenant
General
1939
Commander
Appointed
Commander
of the 2nd Corps of the
British
Expeditionary Force in
France
1939
Dynamo
Dunkirk
Directs defensive actions which secure the escape of the BEF from
Dunkirk
1940
Commander
19th July
Appointed
Commander
of the Home Forces after the evacuation at
Dunkirk
19th July
Appointed
Commander
of the Home Forces
1940
Dynamo
Dunkirk
Hitler rounds the
Maginot
line forcing evacuation of 340,000 between 27 May-4 June
1940
Invasion of Britain
19th July
Begins preparations for an anticipated German invasion of Britain
1941
Adviser
Appointed
Principle
Military
Adivisor to
Churchill
1941
Chief of Imperial General Staff
Appointed
Commander
of the
Imperial
General
Staff
Appointed
Commander
of the the
Imperial
General
Staff
1942
Chairman Chief of Staff Comm
Appointed
Chairman
of the
Chiefs
of
Staff
Committee
1942
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Appointed
Member
of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Sraff
1942
Meeting Brooke
5th Aug
Auchinleck agrees Brooke's proposal to make
Montgomery
Comander of the 8th Army
1943
Conference of Casablanca
Casablanca
Eienhower is appointed The
Supreme
Allied
Commander
for
Overlord
instead of
Brooke
1943
Conference of Tehran
Nov Tehran
Attends the
Tehran
conference
1944
Field Marshal
Appointed
Field
Marshal
1945
Peerage
Created Baron Brooke, 1st
1946
Peerage
Created Viscount
Brooke
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