Montgomery And Churchill At El Alamein Re-Union In London -- The beribboned war-leaders, smiling together, Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (left) and Mr. Winston Churchill, at the re-union of Eight Army and Desert Air Force veterans at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court, London, tonight. Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the commander of the British Eighth Army in its successful offensive at El Alamein in October 1942, presided, and Mr. Winston Churchill, the war-time Prime Minister, was guest of honour, at the re-union of Eight Army and Desert Air Force veterans at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court, London, tonight, (Friday). October 21, 1949.