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8. Juli 2014 · Gen Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough: His role as neutral Ireland’s defender, and the champion of Irish personnel serving in the British forces, is an unwritten story. This year marks the centenary ...
Sir Hubert Gough. (1870-1963), General. Sitter in 2 portraits. First became known for his command during the Second Boer War. He served in the 1897 Tirah Expedition in India and in the South African War of 1899-1902. Just before the outbreak of World War I, he was a ringleader of the Curragh Mutiny.
General Sir Hubert Gough was a British general who rose to command the Fifth Army during the First World War.He gained an early reputation as an impetuous cavalry commander during the Boer War, was involved in the Curragh incident of 1914, had commander of the early phases of the third battle of Ypres and was in command of the section of the line that was worst affected by the first German ...
Gough, Sir Hubert de la Poer (1870–1963), soldier, was born 12 August 1870 in London, second son of Gen. Sir Charles John Stanley Gough (qv), GCB, VC, of Innislonagh, Co. Tipperary, and Harriette Anastasia de la Poer, of Gurteen le Poer, Co. Waterford, daughter of John W. Power (1816–51), MP for Co. Waterford (1837–40). (Power's widow changed the family name to ‘de la Poer’ by royal ...
As its commander Gough was blamed for the collapse of the Fifth Army during the great German push in March 1918 during Third Ypres, and was replaced by General Sir William Birdwood . He did not hold command again until after the war. Gough retired as a full general in 1922, penning a self-vindication of Fifth Army in 1931. He was knighted in 1937.
Multimedia w Wikimedia Commons. Hubert de la Poer Gough (ur. 12 sierpnia 1870 w Londynie, zm. 18 marca 1963 tamże) – brytyjski generał, uczestnik II wojny burskiej i I wojny światowej . Pochodził z rodziny o tradycjach wojskowych. W szeregi armii wstąpił w 1889 roku, był oficerem kawalerii. Służył w Indiach, gdzie szybko awansował.
