It was, in fact, ' about the equivalent of the First Army Corps of the existing mobilization scheme ', and was placed under the command of Gen Sir Redvers Buller, GOCinC of Aldershot Command.

From 1 October 1901, the Duke of Connaught held the dual commands of CinC Ireland and GOCinC III Corps.

Sir John French ( GOCinC BEF ) wanted Sir Herbert Plumer to succeed Grierson, but the secretary of state for war, Earl Kitchener, instead chose Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, transferred from Southern Command.

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.

He spent his leisure time devising with Philip Christison more up-to-date theories of logistics, staff duties and tactical handling, only to be reprimanded by Lord Gort, the Commandant, for taking things too fast.

On 22 February 1911, Lord Gort married Corinna Vereker, a second cousin, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London.

), 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 ".

Lord Gort was given the post of Inspector of Training and the Home Guard, and with nothing constructive to do visited Iceland, Orkney and Shetland.

68, 000 men and the commander of the BEF — Lord Gort — evacuated on 31 May.

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 ).

His attitude alienated seasoned campaigners such as Field Marshals John Dill and Lord Gort, the latter of whom, it was reported, could not bear to be in the same room with the Minister.

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.

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.

A viscountcy with the same title as the Irish peerage was then conferred in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to a later Lord Gort.

An unqualified reference to " Lord Gort " will almost always be to the sixth viscount.

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.

This Lord Gort was a distinguished soldier whose personal courage in the First World War was recognised with the highest decoration of the British Empire, the Victoria Cross, plus three further gallantry decorations, before achieving the most senior post in the British Army, Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

It was Lord Gort who commanded the BEF in 1939 and his leadership during the disastrous withdrawal from France preserved his reputation at an unhappy time for the nation.

He kept his style modest, avoiding, for example, the self-conscious possibility of Lord Gort and Gort.

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.

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.

This was the case with the second Lord Gort and the third Lord Gort, but ceased to be an option for the sixth Lord Gort.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

While preparations were under way for a renewed advance on Kabul, the new Governor-General Lord Ellenborough ordered British forces to leave Afghanistan after securing the release of the prisoners from Kabul and taking reprisals.

Lord Lytton, the viceroy, ordered a diplomatic mission to set out for Kabul in September 1878 but the mission was turned back as it approached the eastern entrance of the Khyber Pass, triggering the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.

On 11 June, acting as the Lord Paramount of Scotland, Edward I ordered that every Royal Scottish Castle be placed temporarily under his control and every Scottish official resign his office and be re-appointed by him.

Lord Lampson, the British Ambassador in Egypt, backed by a battalion of British troops, marched into King Farouk's palace and ordered him to dismiss Maher and appoint the pro-British Mustafa el-Nahhas in his place.

Magnus ordered his kinsman Thurchetel, the Lord High Constable of Sweden as the guardian of his heir, the future king Birger of Sweden, who was about ten years old at father's death.

On 4 June 1916, Lord Kitchener personally answered questions asked by politicians about his running of the war effort ; at the start of hostilities Kitchener had ordered two million rifles from various US arms manufacturers.

In 1803, Lord Richard Wellesley, the Governor-General of India, ordered Robert J. Fraquhar to transfer trading and military operations to Balambangan island near Borneo.

440 ) Lord Hardwicke, where a trustee laid out trust money in the South Sea annuities, which afterwards sunk in their value ; it was considered as a departure from the trust, and the trustee ordered personally to make good the deficiency to the trust-estate.

: Articles ordered by His Majestie to be observed by all persons that put in horses to ride for the Plate, the new round heat at Newmarket set out on the first day of October, 1664, in the 16th year of our Sovereign Lord King Charles II, which Plate is to be rid for yearly, the second Thursday in October for ever.

However, once it was clear that Tudor was marching unopposed through Wales, Richard ordered Lord Stanley to join him without delay.

Lord Leicester was ordered to keep part of his land ( thereafter known as Leicester Field and later as Leicester Square ) open for the parishioners.

According to an account from the period: The Lord General hath caused a bridge to be built upon barges and lighters over the Thames between Fulham and Putney, to convey his army and artillery over into Surrey, to follow the king's forces ; and he hath ordered that forts shall be erected at each end thereof to guard it ; but for the present the seamen, with long boats and shallops full of ordnance and musketeers, lie there upon the river to secure it.

He ordered them to appear before the Earl of Argyll who was then the Lord High Chancellor of Scotland and make peace, on the understanding that should they not be peacful that they would be fined 500 merks.

After Parkes and the surviving diplomatic prisoners were freed, Lord Elgin ordered the Summer Palaces destroyed starting on 18 October.

Palmerston ordered the Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Wodehouse, to take measures against this, including a possible suspension of trial-by-jury and a monitoring of Americans travelling to Ireland.

Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years.

Dundee ordered Patrick Steuart of Ballechin, a relative of the Murrays ', to hold Blair Castle for the King ; Lord Murray ended up besieging his own castle.

Honi, ordered to curse the besieged, prayed: " Lord of the universe, as the besieged and the besiegers both belong to Thy people, I beseech Thee not to answer the evil prayers of either.

In 1701 ( by the Western calendar ), two daimyo, Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori, the young daimyo of the Akō Domain ( a small fiefdom in western Honshū ), and Lord Kamei of the Tsuwano Domain, were ordered to arrange a fitting reception for the envoys of the Emperor in Edo, during their sankin kōtai service to the Shogun.

Omi throws them into a pit to " tame " them and tells the crew Lord Yabu has ordered that they pick one amongst their own, other than Blackthorne, to die so that the others may live.