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	JOHN VEREKER, 6TH VISCOUNT GORT : Encyclopedia Entry
		On the death of King Edward VII in 1910 Lieutenant Gort was in command of the Grenadier NCOs detailed to bear the coffin and attend the catafalque.
		Gort was given the post of Inspector of Training and the Home Guard, and with nothing constructive to do visited Iceland, the Orkneys, and the Shetland Islands.
		Gort was present when his son-in-law received the VC from Alexander on 3 March 1944 in Italy (the VC ribbon was cut from one of Gort's uniforms).
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/John_Vereker,_6th_Viscount_Gort (1097 words)

	John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO and 2 Bars, MVO, MC (July 10, 1886 - March 1946) was a British soldier who served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and receiving the Victoria Cross.
		Gort was made an aide to King George VI in 1940.
		He was created a viscount in the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the same title in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Vereker,_6th_Viscount_Gort (684 words)

	john gort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (July 10, 1886 - March 1946) was a British soldier, he served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and winning the Victoria Cross.
		Forced northwards the BEF had to be evacuated from France during the Battle of Dunkirk.
		Back in England he was side-lined for the rest of the war, Gort was made an aide to the king in 1940.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /John_Gort.html (374 words)

	ipedia.com: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort was a British soldier, he served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and winning the Victoria Cross.
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (July 10, 1886 - March 1946) was a British soldier, he served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and winning the Victoria Cross.
		Back in England he was side-lined for the rest of the war, Gort was made an aide to the King in 1940.
	www.ipedia.com /john_vereker__6th_viscount_gort.html (414 words)

	The Defence of Calais 1940
		The German forces that crossed the frontiers of the Netherlands, Belgium and France on May 10, 1940, so completely succeeded in their aim of cutting through the Allies' defenses that within 10 days they had reached the Channel coast and cut the BEF and a French army off from the rest of France.
		On May 19, the commander in chief of the BEF, General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, warned the British War Office that it might have to consider evacuating the BEF.
		Visits from the Luftwaffe were compounded by the discovery that all the weapons were packed in mineral jelly, and that many parts for weapons, vehicles and radios were missing.
	www.army.mod.uk /infantry/regts/the_rifles/history_traditions/battle_honours/calais_1940.htm (3778 words)

	Viscount Gort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849-1902)
		John Standish Surteees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946)
		John Standish Surteees Prendergast Vereker, 1st Viscount Gort (1886-1946)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/viscount_gort (193 words)

	Viscount Gort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The sixth Viscount, Field Marshal John Vereker, received a second Viscountcy (in the Peerage of the UK), but it became extinct since he left no children, while the Irish titles had remainder to a cousin.
		Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768-1842), elected a Representative Peer in 1824
		John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790-1865), elected a Representative Peer in 1865
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Viscount-Gort.htm (233 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 4625
		Jacqueline Corinne Yvonne Vereker was the daughter of Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, V.C. and Corinna Katherine Vereker.
		Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, V.C. was the son of John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort and Eleanor Surtees.
		George Medlicott Vereker was the son of John Prendergast Vereker and Louisa Medlicott.
	www.thepeerage.com /p4625.htm (646 words)

	Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 65 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John of the Isles, Lord of the Isles MacDonald, b.
		John Standish Surtes Prendergast, Viscount Gort 6th Vereker
		John the Fearless of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy
	www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedFx65.html (1050 words)

	6th Viscount Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Biography (1886–1946) Online Encyclopedia Article About ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		6th Viscount Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Biography (1886–1946)
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		6th Viscount Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/056/6th-Viscount-Gort-John-Standis.html (209 words)

	Section2a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Fogarty CE, his brother Joseph Fogarty who is listed in the local directories as an architect/engineer together with James Pain, architect, are the predominant names who designed most of buildings of the period.
		The Gort title was inherited by his eldest son, John Prendergast Vereker, the third Lord Gort who was ruined by the Famine, "when he refused to collect rents and gave large sums to charity, including £5,000 to the poor-house.
		Ironically this Lord Gort's ancestor, the second viscount Gort was the last constable at King John's Castle at Limerick now the scene of yet another controversy between "interpretative" heritage centres and those who object to the commercialisation of Irish history.
	www.limerick.com /theroyal/thebook/section2a.html (8977 words)

	"G" Famous People
		Gerard, John (1545-1612) Herbalist and barber-surgeon, born in Nantwich, Cheshire, NWC England...
		Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount (1886-1946) British soldier, born at Hamsterley Hall, Durham, NE England, UK.
		Granby, John Manners, Marquess of (1721-70) British army officer, the eldest son of the Duke of Rutland...
	www.jonathanselby.com /Gfam (14299 words)

	Category:British Field Marshals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Julian H.G. Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
		John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
		Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Category:British_Field_Marshals (106 words)

	British Army Commanders in Chief
		F.M. The Rt Hon Garnet Joseph (Wolseley), 1st Viscount Wolseley of Cairo, PC, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD The Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh (Roberts), 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, VC, KG, KP, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KJStJ, VD Chief of the General Staff:
		F.M. The Rt Hon John Standish Surtees Prendergast (Vereker), 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC, KStJ
		F.M. Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO
	www.regiments.org /biography/defchiefs/ukCinC.htm (892 words)

	East Kent Branch - Grenadier Guards Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was born in Portman Square in the City of London and was educated at Harrow School and then the Royal Military Academy.
		Upon his death (without children), in London on 31 March 1946, the Irish viscountcy of Gort passed to a cousin and the British creation became extinct.
		He is buried in the vault of St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst
	www.ekb.org.uk /gort.asp (558 words)

	John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Details, Meaning John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Article and Explanation Guide
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (July 10, 1886 - March 1946), commonly known as Lord Gort, was a British soldier who served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and receiving the Victoria Cross.
		Gort was made an aide to King George VI in 1940.
		This is an Article on John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort.
	www.e-paranoids.com /j/jo/john_vereker__6th_viscount_gort.html (426 words)

	Battle of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Allied general staff and key statesmen, after capturing the original invasion plans, were initially jubilant that they had potentially won a key victory in the war before the campaign was even fought.
		Contrarily, General Gamelin and John Vereker, 6th Viscount GortLord Gort, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, were shaken into realizing that whatever the Germans came up with instead would not be what they had initially expected.
		He had no faith in the Weygand plan nor in the proposal of the latter to at least try to hold a pocket on the Flemish coast, a ''Réduit de Flandres''.
	www.infothis.com /find/Battle_of_France (5538 words)

	Papers of Maj Gen Robert Clive Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (1896-1982)
		Papers relating to despatches by Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, of the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, Sep 1939-Jun 1940, including maps, commentary and narrative accounts, 1941.
		Printed proof copy of 'Despatches of the Operations of the British Expeditionary Force', from Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, describing the military operations of the British forces in France and Belgium previous to and during the Battle of Flanders.
		Notes and papers on the content and layout of the proposed publication of despatches from Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort on the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in France, previous to and during the Battle of Flanders, 1939-1940.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/cats/bridgeman/br40-01-.htm (1967 words)

	Viscount Gort's House in Knightsbridge - London - UK Attraction
		Viscount Gort's House in Knightsbridge - London - UK Attraction
		John Vereker, the 6th Viscount of Gort was a born and bred Londoner of the highest class.
		He lived at the centre of Knightsbridge in this fine town house and was actively involved in many political and diplomatic affairs.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/viscount-gorts-house.htm (170 words)

	Find in a Library: Man of valour: the life of Field-Marshal the Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, DSO, MVO, MC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Man of valour: the life of Field-Marshal the Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, DSO, MVO, MC
		Subjects: Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, -- 6th Viscount, -- 1886-1946.
		Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, -- Viscount.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/809920a0dd649a3b.html (84 words)

	British Mandate of Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The British, under Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount AllenbyGeneral Allenby/, defeated the Turkish forces in 1917 and occupied Palestine and Syria.
		The United Kingdom was granted control of Palestine by the Peace Conference of Versailles which established the League of Nations in 1919 and appointed Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelHerbert Samuel, a former Postmaster General in the British cabinet who was instrumental in drafting the Balfour Declaration, as its first High Commissioner in Palestine.
		John Vereker, 6th Viscount GortJohn Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort/
	www.infothis.com /find/British_Mandate_of_Palestine (2435 words)

	Papers of Gen Sir Alexander John Godley, GCB, KCMG (1867-1957)
		Letters to Godley from FM Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, on the possible appointment of Maj Gen Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor, Commander Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division in Palestine, to command the New Zealand Division on the Western Front, 1917.
		Letters to Godley from FM Sir John Greer Dill, notably on Dill's retirement as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1941; the wherabouts of Belgian Princess Marie de Croy, and descriptions of Washington, USA.
		Letters to Godley from AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Bt, mainly personal correspondence, including brief comments on the evacuation of troops from the Dardanelles, 1915, the attempt by the RN Dover Patrol to block the ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend, Belgium, 1918, and the career of Capt Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe, RN, 1922.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/cats/godley/go20-01-.shtml (1819 words)

	Sports Fresh : Article 'George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Spaniards quickly assembled an army to recapture the place, and a new siege opened in October 1704 by troops of France and Spain under the marquess of Villadarias.
		The Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral, Sir John Leake, and the military governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (who had commanded the land forces in July), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.
		A notable incident during the siege was the attempt made by 500 French and Spanish volunteer grenadiers to surprise the garrison on October 31.
	www.sports-fresh.net /DisplayArticle890006.html (501 words)

	John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & 2 Bars, MVO, MC) (July 10, 1886 - March 1946), commonly known as Lord Gort, was a British soldier who served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of Field Marshal and receiving the Victoria Cross.
		On 27 September 1918 at the Canal du Nord, near Flesquieres, France, Lieutenant Colonel Gort led his battalion under very heavy fire and although wounded, when the battalion was held up, he went across open ground to obtain assistance from a tank and personally led it to the best advantage.
		Field Marshal Lord Gort VC (detailed biography, photo)
	www.music.us /education/J/John-Vereker,-6th-Viscount-Gort.htm (714 words)

	Rowlands Gill and the North-East 1939-1945 - The Home Guard
		He was the Honourable Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker M.C. of Hamsterley Hall - perhaps better remembered now as Lord Gort (7th Viscount Gort), a title he inherited in 1946.
		His brother, the 6th Viscount, was John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker V.C., known as Tiger Gort because of his World War 1 exploits.
		The Home Guard was partially stood down on September 6th 1944 and the stand down was made complete eight weeks later on November 1st with final parades all over the country on Sunday December 3rd.
	www.bpears.org.uk /Misc/War_NE/w_section_04.html (5376 words)

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