MONTGOMERY’S FORM OF DRESS CRITICISED
LONDON, March 15,
“Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery should go about dressed as a field marshal. His dress is entirely outside the regular army regulations,” said the 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 is desirable in the armed forces.”
The Secretary for War, Mr. E. Shinwell, replied that he could see nothing in Field Marshal Montgomery’s dress to encourage other soldiers to be slovenly. He thought it was picturesque 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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