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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 .
Prior to Woolwich, he succeeded his father as the 6th Viscount Gort (Peerage of Ireland). He graduated from the military academy in 1905 and was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in Jul of that year.
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 British and Anglo-Irish soldier. As a young officer in World War I he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of...
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.
Learn about the life and career of Lord Gort, a British soldier who commanded the B.E.F. in 1939-1940 and led the evacuation from Dunkirk. Find out his achievements, awards, and controversies in the First and Second World Wars.
Leslie Hore-Belisha was the British war minister who was dismissed in January 1940 amid a clash with the Army leadership. He was a reformer who introduced conscription and mechanization, but also faced opposition from the aristocratic generals and the prime minister Chamberlain.
Dec 22, 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.
