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Born April 16, 1897 • Stroud • England
Died January 28, 1990 (aged 92) • Dorset • England
Role In World War II
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
Malcolm Muggeridge
British journalist and social critic
Elsie Widdowson
English nutritionist
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
prime minister of United Kingdom
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan
British officer
Aaron Bank
United States Army officer
Canaris, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Canaris
German admiral
Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery
British military commander
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British commander of Allied air forces used in the Normandy Invasion.
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
British air marshal
Andrew Browne Cunningham, first sea lord and chief of naval staff in the Royal Navy, 1943–46.
Andrew Browne Cunningham
British naval officer
Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet
British military officer
Percy Hobart
British military officer
Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.
Miles Christopher Dempsey
British general
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd marquess of Linlithgow
British statesman and viceroy of India
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
British historian
Bertram Home Ramsay, naval commander in chief of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion.
Bertram Home Ramsay
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Alan Francis Brooke (Lord Alanbrooke), chief of the British Imperial General Staff during World War II.
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
British field marshal

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