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 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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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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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 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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Jacqueline Corrine Yvonne Vereker (20 October 1914 – 15 November 1962), daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, on 8 June 1940. The couple...
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Prendergast Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort (1819–1900) John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902) John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount...
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William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, and his wife Jacqueline (née Vereker), a daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. He was educated...
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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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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, subordinate...
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field marshals (Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir George White, Earl Roberts, and Lord Gort) had previously received the Victoria Cross (VC), the United Kingdom's highest...
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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 French...
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(1997), pp. 174, 485 Hamilton (1986), pp. 621, 725 "William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...
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6th Earl of Abingdon (1808–1884) British peer and politician John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946) British military officer and commander of the British...
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Force (BEF), General, later Field Marshal, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, did not get along well together. Gort disliked Hore-Belisha for his colourful...
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Eleanor, who married John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort in 1885. Their first son John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC was succeeded in 1946...
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John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort (1742 – 1817), (Lord Gort). John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946), (Lord Gort) a World War II British Expeditionary...
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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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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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1928–1931: Sir John Chancellor 1931–1938: Sir Arthur Wauchope 1938–1944: Sir Harold MacMichael 1944–1945: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort 1945–1948: Sir...
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Roscow George Shedden - Colonial bishop of Nassau John Nash – architect John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort - World War II field marshal and commander of the...
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Offensive. After the war, Marshall became an aide-de-camp to Army Chief of Staff John J. Pershing. Marshall later served on the Army staff, was the executive officer...
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Washington, Belgian inventor and businessman (b. 1871) March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British field marshal (b. 1886) April 1 Noah Beery, American...
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followed up with an attack on a car park in Tel Aviv occupied by the British 6th Airborne Division. Lehi fighters burst into tents, shooting soldiers in their...
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Gore Lieutenant-General Sir George Gorringe Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Brigadier Geoffrey William Goschen Lieutenant-General William...
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High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael until 30 August; John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein Prime Minister...
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initiated the Battle of France. First Expeditionary Force General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Franklyn) I Corps...
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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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Vereker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768–1842), Irish soldier and politician Colin Leopold...
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in the floor is a simple Cumberland slate to Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (1886–1946). On the south...
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