Le Petit Journal Supplement Illustre 1st April, 1917, with Full Colour cover of General Gough

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Edité par Le Petit Journal, Paris, 1917

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Pp.98-104. General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough. Born in London in 1870, Gough came from a long lineage of soldiery. His family were Irish by adoption and were prominent Anglican churchmen.During the Great War, Gough was the youngest British general commanding on the Western Front. but was greatly disliked by his superiors because he challenged their decisions and encouraged his own staff to do so. By the time of the Curragh Mutiny, Gough was a brigadier. In March 1914, he led 57 fellow officers of Third Cavalry Brigade to deliver an ultimatum to Gen Paget, declaring that they would accept dismissal if ordered north to put down the UVF. Called to Whitehall, Gough and his colonels requested a written assurance that they would not be ordered to enforce Home Rule in Ulster and Secretary of State for War JE Seely agreed to their demands, but Prime Minister Herbert Asquith could not allow army officers to dictate policy and Seely resigned.n his retirement, he stewarded the Fifth Army Comrades Association and led the Chelsea Home Guard in the second World War. It was in this capacity that, ironically, Gough attacked Northern Ireland?s unionist government in August 1941. He co-authored a letter to Churchill and Canadian prime minister William Mackenzie King, criticising Stormont for organising a local defence force, analogous to Britain?s home guard, but ?recruited along politico-sectarian lines? Gough, and other retired Anglo-Irish officers, castigated Craigavon for his policies. While disagreeing with Irish neutrality, they defended the sovereign right to pursue such a course and desired to see old wounds and divisions healed through a spirit of reconciliation. Gough brought about recognition of the contribution of Irish citizens to Britain?s war effort. In September 1941, he published an editorial in the Times of London, citing that very large numbers of Irishmen have joined H.M. Forces and, upon his suggestion, Churchill formed the 38th Irish Brigade, which fought valiantly in North Africa and Italy. Gough also observed that there was no facility where Irish servicemen and women could meet and rest in London. With a donation of £1,000 from the Guinness family, he opened the Shamrock Club in Park Lane in March 1943, a venue often frequented by many Irish personnel on leave. In 1946, Gough famously wrote to the Times of London, claiming that, by July 1944, British next-of-kin lists contained 165,000 addresses in the south of Ireland. He felt that Britain owed a debt of honour to these volunteers, who in spite of their country?s neutrality, crowded unasked to the aid of the United Kingdom in its blackest crisis. Gough died in March 1963, his chief legacies being the preventative mutiny at the Curragh and his reputation as an incompetent officer in 1918 where he fell victim of political manouevring. Despite that he was one of three member of his family to win the Victoria Cross fro outstanding bravery. However, his role as neutral Ireland?s defender, and the champion of Irish personnel serving in the British forces, is an unwritten story which, in the year 2014, is fitting to tell. Tue, Jul 8, 2014, 01:00 First published: Tue, Jul 8, 2014, 01:00 19.…

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Le Petit Journal Supplement Illustre 1st April, 1917, with Full Colour cover of General Gough
Auteur
Le Petit Journal
Éditeur
Le Petit Journal, Paris
Année de publication
1917
État de l'article
Very Good
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Soft cover
Langue
anglais
Dimensions
Folio
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I, L42, Military History 114

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