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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.
John Vereker, sixth Viscount Gort, was a British soldier best known for his period in command of the B.E.F. in 1939-1940, which ended with the evacuation from Dunkirk.
Lord John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (left), commander of the BEF in France, confers with his chief of staff, General Henry Pownall at British Army headquarters in 1939. There were other, more pragmatic and non-religious reasons to explain Hore-Belisha’s dismissal.
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.
