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    Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (13 August 1897 – 7 August 1942), nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer...
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    John William Gott (1866 – 4 November 1922) was a British socialist and the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy. His was also the...
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    "Gott strafe England" was an anti-British slogan used by the German Army during World War I. The phrase literally means "May God punish England". It was...
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    William Gott, (Leeds 1797 – Patterdale 26 August 1863) was a British wool merchant, mill owner, philanthropist towards public services and art collector...
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  • Richard Gott (born 1947), U.S. astrophysicist John William Gott (1866–1922), the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy Karel Gott (1939–2019)...
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    advance be cancelled. However, XIII Corps commander—Lieutenant-General William Gott—rejected this and ordered the attack but on a centre line 1 mi (1.6 km)...
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  • John Gott may refer to: John William Gott (1866–1922), last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy Jon Gott (born 1985), gridiron football...
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    James William Gott (born August 3, 1959) is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach. Gott pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 years...
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    Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command and his successor, Lieutenant-General William Gott was killed on his way to replace him as commander of the Eighth Army...
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    artillery component of 7th Armoured Division's Support Group under Brigadier William Gott. The British Army was heavily outnumbered by the Italians, so General...
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    Alamein, was replaced by General Harold Alexander. Lieutenant-General William Gott was promoted from XIII Corps commander to command of the entire Eighth...
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    wool merchants. His sons John and William Gott joined Gott & Sons and managed the company from about 1825. Gott's most notable contribution to the industrial...
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    and many of the fighting troops were inexperienced. Lieutenant-General William Gott, the commander of XIII Corps, was withdrawn from Tobruk and on 15 June...
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    in the Gott Collection of William Gott, a wool merchant, and his son John Gott who was vicar of Leeds and Bishop of Truro. Woolnoth, William; Brayley...
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  • is best known for piloting the aircraft in which Lieutenant-General William Gott died. In 1942 James (then 19) was a transport pilot for the Royal Air...
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  • by Johann Sebastian Bach as a cantus firmus in his chorale cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (BWV 130). The Genevan Psalter was compiled over a number...
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    served as Brigadier General Staff (BGS) of XIII Corps, commanded by William Gott, a fellow officer of the KRRC, then Brian Horrocks and Miles Dempsey...
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    draw on in the wake of Rommel's recent successes, on 15 May Brigadier William Gott attacked in three columns with a mixed infantry and armoured force. The...
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    by Harold Alexander and as GOC, Eighth Army by William Gott (previously commander of XIII Corps). Gott was killed soon afterwards, when the aircraft carrying...
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    Corps commander, Lieutenant-General William Gott and as C-in-C Middle East Command by General Sir Harold Alexander. Gott was killed when his aircraft was...
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    Egypt. Wavell wrote, The greatest possible credit is due to Brigadier William Gott, MC, commanding the Support Group, and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell...
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  • Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization. John William Gott, a working man of Bradford, West Yorkshire, attacked religion, especially...
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  • September 1941 he was relieved as commander of the division by Major General William Gott following the costly failure of Operation Battleaxe. Creagh commanded...
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    his protégé ) instead of Lieutenant-General William Gott, who was Churchill's candidate. Soon thereafter Gott was killed when his aircraft was shot down...
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    displayed as a tiger skin at the 1862 International Exhibition, and sold to William Gott, who had it mounted by Edwin Henry Ward, and presented it in 1863 to...
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    Junior Division included numerous future general officers, including William Gott, George Hopkinson, George Symes, Maurice Chilton, Walter Mallaby, Stuart...
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    Mersa Matruh but was prevented by the British Mobile Force (Brigadier William Gott) on the frontier, which conducted a delaying action around Sollum and...
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    five forward German aerodromes on 17 November 1941. Lieutenant General William Gott, the highest ranking British officer killed in the war, died when a Bombay...
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    1st Royal Tank Regiment Support Group (Infantry Brigade) (Brigadier William Gott) 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade 1st...
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    General Sir Harold Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert. However, after Gott was killed flying back to Cairo...
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