caption serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance birth_date placeofburial rank image article_title name
lieutenant general hubert gough 1888 -- 1922 united kingdom fifth gcb -lrb- father -rrb- general sir hugh henry gough vc army -lrb- uncle -rrb- brigadier-general john edmund gough vc -lrb- brother sir -rrb- charles john stanley gough vc , 18 march 1963 -lrb- aged 92 -rrb- london london united kingdom united kingdom of great britain and ireland 12 august 1870 camberley , surrey general ltgenhubert de la poer gough.jpg hubert gough
 sir hubert de la poer gough
hubert gough

general sir hubert de la poer gough , gcb , gcmg , kcvo -lrb- 12 august 1870 -- 18 march 1963 -rrb- , was a senior officer in the british army in the first world war .
a favourite of the british commander-in-chief , general sir douglas haig , he experienced a meteoric rise through the ranks during the war and commanded the british fifth army from 1916 to 1918 during the war .
