There was one city Field Marshal Montgomery, the Allied commander on D-Day, felt truly close to home.
When the fighting stopped and World War Two’s end came, towns and cities across the UK moved quickly to honour Britain’s most famous general.
Some had settled in County Down, others, the field marshal’s branch of the family, in Killaghtee, County Donegal, near the town of Killybegs. In 1774, Samuel bought an estate close to the shores of Lough Foyle, some 19 miles from the city, at Moville in County Donegal. The field marshal's parents are buried in the grounds of the church they helped build close to their home in Moville
A plaque close by remembers that the bishop gave back part of the land bought by Samuel to the community.
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