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...
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John Vereker may refer to: John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865), Irish peer and politician John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902), Anglo-Irish...
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Sir John Michael Medlicott Vereker, KCB, KStJ, FRSA (born 9 August 1944) is a former British civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary for International...
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Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, MC, KStJ (12 February 1888 – 21 May 1975) was an Anglo-Irish peer, connoisseur and collector...
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John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (28 January 1849 – 15 August 1902) was an Anglo-Irish peer, landowner and Army officer. Vereker was born...
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Viscount Gort (redirect from George Medlicott Vereker)
Maurice Charles Prendergast Vereker (1884–1963) (3) Charles John Prendergast Vereker (b. 1935) (4) Richard John Prendergast Vereker (b. 1978) (5) Nicholas...
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John Prendergast Vereker (April 1822 – 27 December 1891) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician. He was the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1863 to 1864. John...
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John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1 July 1790 – 20 October 1865), was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Gort was the son of Charles Vereker...
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Governor Vereker may refer to: John Vereker (civil servant) (born 1944), Governor and Commander in Chief of Bermuda from 2002 to 2007 John Vereker, 6th Viscount...
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Hugh Vereker, secretive novelist in Henry James's The Figure in the Carpet (1896) Gordon Vereker (1889–1976), British diplomat John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd...
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came into the ownership of the Gort family, when the Viscount's son, John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, acquired it by marrying Elizabeth Tudor. The story...
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multiple times. The British First World War Victoria Cross recipient John Vereker, later Field Marshal Viscount Gort, was mentioned in despatches nine...
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Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon (1808–1884) British peer and politician John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946) British military officer and commander...
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complicated example of an army chain of command. Its commander General John Vereker, the Viscount Gort, was in control of the BEF and all British forces...
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his daughter Eleanor, who married John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort in 1885. Their first son John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC was succeeded...
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consisted of ten divisions in three corps under the command of General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. Working with the BEF were the Belgian Army and the...
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was born in Dublin, Ireland, the third son of Scottish Professor Daniel John Cunningham and his wife Elizabeth Cumming Browne. He was educated at Cheltenham...
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John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort being sworn in as High Commissioner for Palestine (1944); the High Commissioner's flag is at centre....
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Ironside, Governor (1938–1939) Clive Gerard Liddell, Governor (1939–1941) John Vereker, Governor (1941–1942) Noel Mason-Macfarlane, Governor (1942–1944) Ralph...
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Poland by Germany on 1 September 1939, the Cabinet appointed General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (Lord Gort) to the command of the BEF on 3 September...
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time as a result of troop transfers and the arrival of new units.) Keegan, John (1990). The Second World War. Viking. ISBN 9780670823598. {{cite book}}:...
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Hugh Oakeley (1906). The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication. London: John Murray. p. 481. Roberts, Andrew (2010). Masters and Commanders: How Four...
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Marquess of Headfort (1959–) John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902) Other Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth (1789–1833) Richard John Wrottesley, 5th Baron Wrottesley...
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British Army's British Expeditionary Force or BEF, commanded by General John Vereker, Lord Gort, was to occupy the central position in the Brussels–Ghent...
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on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2011. "Obituary: Field Marshal Sir John Stanier". TimesOnline.co.uk. The Times. 13 November 2007. Archived from the...
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general Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton. His mother Corinna Vereker, daughter of John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, died when he was born. He followed his...
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and politician. Gort was the son of Thomas Vereker by Juliana, daughter of Charles Smyth and sister of John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort and was...
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election in Limerick City in 1818 but was defeated by the Tory incumbent, John Vereker, by 300 votes. He won the seat in 1820 and entered the House of Commons...
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Monarch Elizabeth II Governor Thorold Masefield Tim Gurney (acting) John Vereker Preceded by Pamela Gordon Succeeded by Alex Scott Leader of the Opposition...
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Robert Clements Gore Lieutenant-General Sir George Gorringe Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Brigadier Geoffrey William Goschen Lieutenant-General...
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