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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 .
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.
Dec 1, 2016 · Across the English Channel in France, the commander of the BEF was John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, who at the time of Dunkirk was 54 years old.
He succeeded as 6th Viscount Gort – an Irish peerage – on his father’s death in 1902. After attending Harrow School and Sandhurst he entered the Grenadier Guards, and served as a staff officer in the First World War before transferring to front line command.
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. As a young officer in World War I he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of...
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.
Lord John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (left), commander of the BEF in France, confers with his chief of staff, General Henry Pownall at British Army headquarters in 1939. There were other, more pragmatic and non-religious reasons to explain Hore-Belisha’s dismissal.
