MONTGOMERY AND HIS ‘IRREGULAR’ ARMY DRESS
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. “Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery should go about dressed as a fieldmarshal. His dress is entirely outside the regular Army regulations, said a Conservative Colonel A. G Duncan, in the House of Commons tonight. Lord Winterton said that many officers and men today carried to an excessive degree the “idea of a very distinguished soldier that negligence was desirable in the armed forces. The Secretary for War, Mr Shinwell, replied that he could see nothing in Field Marshall Montgomery’s dress to encourage other soldiers to be slovenly. He thought it was pic turesque and attractive. Mr Shinwell added, amid laughter: “I shall look up the precise regulation, and, if Field-Marshal Montgomery is to be castigated, we shall do it in private.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1948, Page 5
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