John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Army officer (1886-1946) · United Kingdom · Politicians · Died at 59
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Something wrong?Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War, he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord.
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The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Lord Gort and Lady Gort, with staff officers at the Staff College, Camberley, prior to the departure of Lord Gort and his staff to France, November 1939
Lord Gort and Lieutenant-General Henry Pownall study a map at GHQ in the château at Habarcq, 26 November 1939.
General Alphonse Joseph Georges of the French Army, accompanied by General Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the BEF, inspecting men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 5th Division, at Bethune, France, 23 April 1940
Lord Gort with Avraham Krinitzi, mayor of Ramat Gan, April 1945
Mr and Mrs David Ben-Gurion of the Jewish Agency being presented to Viscount Gort, the new Commissioner of Palestine.Awards
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Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War, he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He is best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France in the first year of the Second World War, only to be evacuated from Dunkirk the following year. Gort later served as Governor of Gibraltar and Malta, and High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan.
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