biography
| name: |
Gough, Sir Hubert de la Poer
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pronunciation:
[gof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1963)
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| biography:
| British soldier, born in Gurteen, Co Waterford, S Ireland. He trained at Sandhurst Military Academy, joined the 16th Lancers, and served in the Boer War, relieving Ladysmith against orders. In Ireland, as commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh (1914), he opposed the use of force to impose Home Rule against the Ulster Volunteers. He was rapidly promoted in World War 1, but his command of the Fifth Army at the third Ypres campaign impaired his reputation. He was made a scapegoat for British military failure during the German advance of March 1918. In 1922 he was retired as a full general. He wrote a self-vindication in Fifth Army (1931), and was knighted in 1937. |
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