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Ballymaconaghy / Cregagh / Lisnasharragh
This street was named for Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein who served as a senior British Army Officer in World War I, the Irish War of Independence and in World War II. He commanded the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert campaign through the second battle of Alamein to the final victory in Tunisia. Later he commanded the eighth army during the Allied invasion of Sicily and the invasion of Italy. He was then in commander of Allied ground forces on D-Day. After the war had ended he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Prior to his retirement in 1958, he served as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.