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Thousands of DLI soldiers served under Monty – Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein – in North Africa and Sicily and from D-Day to the end of the war. Monty later said of DLI – ‘It is a magnificent Regiment, steady as a rock in battle and absolutely reliable on all occasions. The fighting men of Durham are splendid soldiers’.
