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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 .
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.
Learn about the life and career of John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, a field marshal and the commander-in-chief at Dunkirk. See the blue plaque marking his former home in Belgravia, London, where he lived from 1920 to 1926.
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, 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.
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.
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.
