Editing Bernard Montgomery (section)

===1930s===
In January 1929 Montgomery was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33460|page=617|date=25 January 1929}}</ref> That month he returned to the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment again, as Commander of Headquarters Company; he went to the [[War Office]] to help write the Infantry Training Manual in mid-1929.<ref name=heath214/> In 1931 Montgomery was promoted to substantive lieutenant-colonel<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33681|page=378|date=16 January 1931}}</ref> and became the [[Commanding officer]] (CO) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and saw service in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] and [[British Raj|British India]].<ref name=heath214/> He was promoted to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in June 1934 (seniority from January 1932).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34067|page=4340|date=6 July 1934}}</ref> He attended and was then recommended to become an instructor at the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] Staff College (now the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College]]) in [[Quetta]], British India.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34075|page=4975|date=3 August 1934}}</ref>

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34426|page=5181|date=13 August 1937}}</ref> where he took command of the [[9th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|9th Infantry Brigade]] with the temporary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34426|page=5178|date=13 August 1937}}</ref> His wife died that year.<ref name=heath214/>

In 1938, he organised an [[Amphibious warfare|amphibious]] [[combined operations]] landing exercise that impressed the new C-in-C of [[Southern Command (United Kingdom)|Southern Command]], General [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|Sir Archibald Percival Wavell]]. He was promoted to major-general on 14 October 1938<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34566 |page=6814 |date=1 November 1938}}</ref> and took command of the [[8th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|8th Infantry Division]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34566|page=6815|date=1 November 1938}}</ref> in the British mandate of Palestine.<ref name=heath214/> In Palestine, Montgomery was involved in suppressing an [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt]] which had broken out over opposition to [[Aliyah|Jewish emigration]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Barr|first=James|title=A Line in the Sand|page=194|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84737-453-0}}</ref> He returned in July 1939 to Britain, suffering a serious illness on the way, to command the [[3rd Division (United Kingdom)|3rd Infantry Division]].<ref name=heath214/> Reporting the suppression of the revolt in April 1939, Montgomery wrote, "I shall be sorry to leave Palestine in many ways, as I have enjoyed the war out here".<ref name="biermansmith">{{harvnb|Bierman|Smith|2002|pp=223–230}}</ref>