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Vor 5 Tagen · Hubert Gough. General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO ( / ɡɒf / GOF; 12 August 1870 – 18 March 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War. A controversial figure, he was a favourite of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.
Vor 2 Tagen · Remaining controversial are the choice of Flanders, its climate, the selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, and debates over the nature of the opening attack and between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives.
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Vor 3 Tagen · On the day of the attack, the engineers manning the poison gas cylinders warned not to use them, citing the weakness and unpredictability of the wind. When overruled by Lt-General Hubert Gough the gas drifted back into the British lines and caused more British than German casualties.
2. Mai 2024 · Haig discussed with the two army commanders, Plumer and Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, what objective they should fix for the first day of the forthcoming offensive. Gough, like Haig’s own operations staff, favoured the idea of a step-by-step approach to the attack, but Plumer urged that they should “go all out.”
13. Mai 2024 · The War Letters of Guy V.H. Gough (a regular officer of the KRRC taken PoW at Ypres on 2/11/1914); Harold S. Gough (KiA near Ypres with the 11th [Service] Bn. KRRC on 17/6/1916 & buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery); Dermot H. Gough (10th Hussars & VIII Corps HQ) & George P. Gough (Irish Guards). The letters are presented chronologically throughout the war from 16th August 1914 to 1st ...
4. Mai 2024 · A First World War period brassard, within a framed and glazed display with celluloid plaques detailed 'Brassard worn by General Sir Hubert Gough G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.V.O. when in command of the Fifth Army during the Great War April 1916 to April 1918' with the military honours, together with two leather-bound volumes of 'Garibaldi ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Mr. Lloyd George has written to Sir Hubert Gough who was made the scapegoat after the Fifth Army was compelled to retreat in 1918, when ...
