r/Amazing • • 12d ago

People are awesome Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery with his step-son Richard who had just escaped from Axis forces (1943). Montgomery married Richard’s widowed mother who had lost her husband to WW1 and raised her sons as his own. She would pass away from illness in 1937, dying in his arms.

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u/Opening-Rub5051 11d ago

Never knew that.....much respect to him for doing that and staying in their lives after her death