Lieutenant Bernard Mongomery awarded the Disguingished Service Order for conspicuous gallant leading in action at Bailleul in Belgium.
He saw action in the First World War as a junior officer in The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper. He returned to the Western Front as a general staff officer and took part in the Battle of Arras in April/May 1917. He also took part in the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as chief of staff of the 47th (2nd London) Division.
In WW II he was the Field Marshal who defeated the Axis forces in North Africa.