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Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and the Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert and North ...
- 1915–1942
- British Army
William Henry Ewart Gott CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both World War I and World War II, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army.
U.S. World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Gott Trapped. TIME. Aug. 24, 1942. His nickname was “Strafer.” Builtlike a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, hecommanded the...
Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott CB, CBE, DSO*, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general when serving in the British Eighth Army.
25 de out. de 2022 · Gott was an extreme apostle of mobility in desert warfare. He had been instrumental in breaking up the divisional structure of the Eighth army and dividing it into flying columns and brigade boxes. This dismantling had in fact enabled Rommel to inflict on the British one defeat after another.
Gott, William Henry Ewart "Strafer". Plot: XXXIII. Row: D. Grave: 21. Gott served in the First World Was, was wounded in 1917 and subsequently captured by German forces. Gott was shot down over Northern Africa on 7 August 1942 (the day after he was appointed commander of the Eight Army by Churchill)
Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both the First and the Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert and North Africa from 1940 to 1942.
