MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hubert Gough

1870 - 1963

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General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough ( GOF; 12 August 1870 – 18 March 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War. A controversial figure, he was a favourite of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and the youngest of his Army commanders. Gough was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before commissioning into the 16th Lancers in 1889. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hubert Gough has received more than 337,132 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hubert Gough is the 1,931st most popular military personnel, the 4,831st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 116th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hubert Gough ranks 1,931 out of 2,058Before him are John Schofield, Gail Halvorsen, Arnold Jackson, Thomas C. Hart, George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, and Oleg Mityaev. After him are Abu Omar al-Shishani, Salman Raduyev, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, John Sullivan, Elmo Zumwalt, and Adrianos Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Hubert Gough ranks 158Before him are Jacques Cariou, James M. Cox, Frederick G. Donnan, Major Ritchie, Lilian Gibbs, and Walter Chaffe. After him are Antonín Slavíček, Liberato Marcial Rojas, William Glackens, Erskine Childers, Roscoe Pound, and Benjamin N. Cardozo. Among people deceased in 1963, Hubert Gough ranks 205Before him are Hugh Gaitskell, Franco Comotti, Otto Fickeisen, Herbert H. Lehman, Alma Richards, and Edward Charles Titchmarsh. After him are Gian Giorgio Trissino, Sigvard Sivertsen, Bohumil Modrý, Tashi Namgyal, Theodore Roethke, and Donald Piper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hubert Gough ranks 4,831 out of 8,785Before him are Laura Haddock (1985), Daniel Harding (1975), Stanley Sadie (1930), Graham Poll (1963), Eric Dier (1994), and William T. Stearn (1911). After him are Geoffrey Hughes (1944), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886), Lynne Frederick (1954), Neil Innes (1944), Henry Lawes (1595), and Alex Garland (1970).

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