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John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6. Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC, meist Lord Gort genannt, war ein britischer Feldmarschall. Er kommandierte die British Expeditionary Force während der deutschen Eroberung Frankreichs, war Gouverneur von Gibraltar und Malta und Hochkommissar in Palästina und Transjordanien.
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.
Viscount Gort (1742–1817) Charles Vereker, 2. Viscount Gort (1768–1842) John Vereker, 3. Viscount Gort (1790–1865) Standish Vereker, 4. Viscount Gort (1819–1900) John Vereker, 5. Viscount Gort (1849–1902) John Vereker, 6. Viscount Gort, 1. Viscount Gort (1886–1946) Standish Vereker, 7. Viscount Gort (1888–1975) Colin Vereker, 8 ...
Viscount Gort, Peerage of the United Kingdom. John Vereker, the sixth Viscount, was the great-grandson of his namesake. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 the family chose to emigrate and settle in County Durham.
John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6. Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC (* 10. Juli 1886 in London; † 31. März 1946 in London), meist Lord Gort genannt, war ein britischer Feldmarschall.
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. In 1910, at the rank of lieutenant, he commanded the non-commissioned officers who served in the role of pall-bearers to the deceased King ...
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC (1886–1946), the Commander-in-Chief at Dunkirk, is commemorated at the house in Belgravia where he lived in the 1920s. Early career. John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, more familiarly known as Jack, was born in London. He succeeded as 6th Viscount Gort – an Irish peerage – on his father’s death in 1902.
