en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Alanbrooke
2 corrections found
(m. 1928)
Alan Brooke’s second marriage to Benita Lees was in 1929, not 1928.
Full reasoning
This date is incorrect. Independent biographical sources record that Alan Brooke married Benita Blanche Pelly (Benita Lees) on 7 December 1929. The same article’s prose section also states that he married her in 1929, so the infobox entry is inconsistent with the article body as well as with external sources.
2 sources
- Imperial War Museums – Life story: Alan Francis Brooke
marriage Benita Blanche Pelly ... 7th December 1929
- The Peerage – Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
He married, secondly, Benita Blanche Pelly ... on 7 December 1929.
and then General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Mobile Division (later the 1st Armoured Division) in 1935
Brooke did not take command of the Mobile Division in 1935; he commanded it in 1937–1938.
Full reasoning
This date is wrong. Brooke was commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in 1934–35, Inspector of the Royal Artillery in 1935–36, Director of Military Training in 1936–37, and only then commander of the Mobile Division in 1937–38. Contemporary and biographical sources agree on the later date, so assigning the Mobile Division command to 1935 compresses several separate appointments into the wrong year.
3 sources
- TIME – 'WESTERN THEATRE: It Begins'
The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38.
- Spink – Miniature dress medals worn by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke
Commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade, 1934-35; Inspector of the Royal Artillery, 1935-36; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1936-37; Commander of the Mobile Division, 1937-38.
- The Peerage / Oxford DNB-derived biography of Alanbrooke
in 1937 ... he became the first commander of the Mobile division—prototype of the later armoured divisions—on Salisbury Plain.