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The guns were completed circa 1906.
Field Marshal, later the First Viscount Alanbrooke, was Chief of Imperial General Staff and, with Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, under Sir Winston Churchill, jointly directed Britain's Armed Forces during the last two years of World War II, 1943-5. After the war Alanbrooke, who had been referred to as the conscience of the army and as 'a dark, incisive, round-shouldered Irish Eagle', handed over office as soon as possible.
In 1957-9 Arthur Bryant edited and published Alanbrooke's diaries and his personal records of World War II as The Turn of the Tide 1939-43, and Triumph in the West 1943-6. Alanbrooke's last entry in the diary on p. 541 of the second volume reads 'June 25th. My last day as CIGS! My four and a half years to a day will have been complete... There have been moments when I wondered whether I should last the course - times of intense fatigue when work had become an unbearable burden, when responsibility weighed heavier than ever and when it became more and more difficult to make decisions... But above all the longing for rest predominated over all other feelings...'. Alanbrooke described the rest of his day then wrote 'thus ended my active military career'.
Field Marshal, later the First Viscount Alanbrooke, was Chief of Imperial General Staff and, with Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, under Sir Winston Churchill, jointly directed Britain's Armed Forces during the last two years of World War II, 1943-5. After the war Alanbrooke, who had been referred to as the conscience of the army and as 'a dark, incisive, round-shouldered Irish Eagle', handed over office as soon as possible.
In 1957-9 Arthur Bryant edited and published Alanbrooke's diaries and his personal records of World War II as The Turn of the Tide 1939-43, and Triumph in the West 1943-6. Alanbrooke's last entry in the diary on p. 541 of the second volume reads 'June 25th. My last day as CIGS! My four and a half years to a day will have been complete... There have been moments when I wondered whether I should last the course - times of intense fatigue when work had become an unbearable burden, when responsibility weighed heavier than ever and when it became more and more difficult to make decisions... But above all the longing for rest predominated over all other feelings...'. Alanbrooke described the rest of his day then wrote 'thus ended my active military career'.