Gort had sent General Adam ahead to build the defensive perimeter around Dunkirk, and General Brooke was to conduct a holding action with the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 50th Divisions along the Ypres-Comines canal as far as Yser while the rest of the BEF fell back.

Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.

Gort sent the battle-worn 3rd, 4th and 50th Divisions into the line to fill the space the Belgians had held.

Lt .- Col. Viscount Gort then proceeded to organise the defence of the captured position until he collapsed ; even then he refused to leave the field until he had seen the " success signal " go up on the final objective.

), Lord Gort advocated the primacy of building a land army and defending France and the Low Countries over Imperial defence after France had said she would not be able on her own to defend herself against a German attack.

Gort replied: " Lord Kitchener had clearly pointed out that no great country can wage a “ little ” war ".

By 1940, his relations with Lord Gort, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, had deteriorated such that neither man had confidence in the other.

Gort and other generals disliked Hore-Belisha's showmanship, but their main disagreements had stemmed from differences of opinion ( the Pillbox affair ) concerning the defence of France along the border with Belgium.

Ismay would later write: " Sandhurst never meant nearly so much to me as Charterhouse had ", but he enjoyed his time at the school and studied alongside many men who went on to become important military officers, including Lord Gort, Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt and Cyril Newall.

Turnour had already been created Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway, in 1761, and was made Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

John Prendergast Smyth had already been created Baron Kiltarton of Gort, in the County of Galway, also in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1810.

John Prendergast-Smyth, Viscount Gort and Lord Kiltarton, was the nephew of Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet, and had succeeded to the Prendergast estates on the death of this uncle in 1760 ( see Prendergast Baronets, of Gort ).

Lord Gort had no sons to inherit his two titles but, unusually, he had been able to secure a special remainder both in 1816 and in 1810, the remainder being in favour of his nephew Charles Vereker, the son of his sister Juliana by her marriage with Thomas Vereker.

Field Marshal Lord Gort had no living sons and, unlike his own ancestor, did not have a special remainder, so on his death just one month after the creation of the new title, the new viscountcy became extinct, whilst the Irish titles passed to his brother.

For this reason, the grant of special remainders for UK titles was far more strict than it had been for Irish titles and the Field Marshal Lord Gort was not sufficiently unique to merit this extra favour.

This means that there had been the option of creating the original Gort peerage as a UK title.

Standish Vereker was the brother of Field Marshal The Lord Gort, who had been the sixth Viscount of the Irish peerage and the first and last Viscount of the United Kingdom peerage ; Standish inherited the Irish viscountcy and barony in 1946.

On 26 May, Anthony Eden — the Secretary of State for war — told General Gort that he might need to " fight back to the west ", and ordered him to prepare plans for the evacuation.

While they were still moving into position, they ran headlong into the German 256th Division who were trying to flank Gort.

His godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); Queen Mary ( his paternal grandmother ); Princess Helena Victoria ( his cousin ); the Lady Margaret Hawkins ( his maternal aunt ); Major the Lord William Montagu Douglas Scott ( his maternal uncle ); and the Viscount Gort ( who was unable to attend ).

All Irish peers at Westminster served as a result of an election process: those not elected to the House of Lords were entitled to stand for election to the House of Commons, leading to the apparent incongruity of Lord Gort, MP.

* Mort, Gort, & Wart ( voiced by Frank Welker, Thom Huge, and Howard Morris, respectively ): Orson's three larger, meaner brothers who played a much bigger role in the cartoon than they ever did in the comic strip, where they were unnamed.

Klaatu ( Michael Rennie ) commanded Helen Benson ( Patricia Neal ) that, were anything to happen to him, she must utter the phrase to the robot Gort ( Lockard Martin ).

At the 2000 Royal Television Society Awards, Sean De Sparengo and Richard Gort were nominated for the " Best Graphic Design – Titles " award for their contribution to the series.

Fearful and distrustful of machines as a result, a group of Nebulon rebels led by Gort immediately captured the Autobots upon their arrival and almost executed them, until an attack by the Decepticons proved that they were on the same side.

* March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal ( b. 1886 )

* Major F. G. L. Chester ( 1899 – 1946 ), also known as Gort Chester, British soldier and member of Z Special Unit in Borneo

Even Churchill admitted that their position was perilous: in a telegram to Lord Gort on 27 May, only one day before the Belgian capitulation, he wrote, " We are asking them to sacrifice themselves for us.

In response, Gort, a large humanoid robot, emerges from the ship and begins disintegrating the weapons present with a ray coming from a visor-like structure on its head.

Gort continues until Klaatu orders him to stop.

Gort stands by, mute and unmoving.

Gort awakens and kills two guards before Helen can relay Klaatu's message.

Gort gently deposits her in the spaceship, then goes to fetch Klaatu's corpse.

Gort then revives Klaatu while the amazed Helen watches.

Klaatu steps out of the spaceship and addresses the assembled scientists, explaining that humanity's penchant for violence and first steps into space have caused concern among other inhabitants of the universe who have created and empowered a race of robot enforcers including Gort to deter such aggression.

At the behest of the MPAA, a line was inserted into the film ; when Helen asks Klaatu whether Gort has unlimited power over life and death, Klaatu explains that he has only been revived temporarily and " that power is reserved to the Almighty Spirit.

The robot Gort, who serves Klaatu, was played by the naturally tall Lock Martin, who worked as an usher at Graumann's Chinese Theater and stood seven feet tall.

Philosophy professor Aeon J. Skoble speculates the famous phrase is a " safe-word " that is part of a fail-safe feature used during the diplomatic missions such as the one Klaatu and Gort make to Earth.

In this interpretation, the phrase apparently tells Gort that Klaatu considers escalation unnecessary.

In this fiction, the aliens intervene in human affairs to prevent them from destroying themselves, such as Klaatu and Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still warning the leaders of Earth to abandon their warlike ways and join other space-faring civilizations else that they will destroy themselves or be destroyed by their interstellar union.

* Lough Cutra Castle, Gort, County Galway ( 1811 – 1817 ).