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John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort ( Londen, 10 juli 1886 – aldaar, 31 maart 1946) was een Brits en Brits-Iers militair die zowel in de Eerste Wereldoorlog als de Tweede Wereldoorlog diende en de rang bereikte van veldmaarschalk en het Victoria Cross kreeg.
22 de dez. de 2023 · In fact, John Vereker (1886–1946) VC GCB CBE DSO MVO MC, 6th Viscount Gort (familiarly known as "Lord Gort" or just "Gort") is probably the only one. His family’s Irish peerage is named after Gort, in County Galway, but he was born in London and grew up entirely in England.
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) 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 (the ...
By Jon Diamond. Lord John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France in 1940, and his chief of staff, General Henry Pownall, have both been forever associated with the British Army’s greatest continental defeat; namely, the retreat through Flanders and eventual evacuation from the harbor and beaches of Dunkirk in May and June, after ...
b. 10/07/1886 Westminster, London. d. 31/03/1946 Southwark, London. John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946) was born in Westminster, London on 10th July 1886 into the Prendergast Vereker noble dynasty, an old Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, and grew up in County Durham and the Isle of Wight.
Viscount Gort (1939/40) John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6. Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC (* 10. Juli 1886 in London; † 31. März 1946 ebenda), meist Lord Gort genannt, war ein britischer Feldmarschall. Er kommandierte die British Expeditionary Force während der deutschen Eroberung Frankreichs, war Gouverneur von ...
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) 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 (the ...
