Colonel Criticises Monty's Uniform
LONDON, Mon. (1.30 p.m.).— “Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery should go about dressed as a field marshal. His dress is entirely outside regular army. regulations,” said Colonel A. G. Duncan (Conservative) in the House of Commons tonight.' Lord Winterton said many officers and men today carried to an excessive degree the “idea of a very distinguished soldier that negligee was desirable in the armed forces.” The Secretary for War (Mr Shinwell) replied that he could see nothing in Field Marshal Montgomery’s dress to encourage other soldiers to be slovenly. He thought it 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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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1948, Page 3
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