Hubert Gough

General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War. A favourite of the British CommanderinChief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, he experienced a meteoric rise through the ranks during the war and commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918.

Gough was born in London onAugust 1870. As an infant Gough went out to India with his family late in 1870, and his brother John was born there in 1871, but in 1877 the boys and their mother were sent back to England, while their father was on active service in the Second Afghan War a younger brother and sister died of scarlet fever at this time. Goughs mother returned to India when he was ten, leaving the boys at a boarding school, and Gough did not meet his father again until he was sixteen.

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