SIR HUBERT GOUGH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 8

SIR HUBERT GOUGH

VINDICATION BY HISTORY The Prime Minister (Mr Baldwin), replying to a question in the House of Commons, whether the Government would compensate General Sir Hubert Gough for the treatment he received in the war, said that while fully appreciating Sir Hubert Gough's great services, and congratulating him upon history's vindication of his reputation, he did not think that, at this distance of time, the Government could advisedly reopen the question of awards for war services, or revise its predecessor's decisions. Sir Hubert Gough's daughter, Muriel, was married to Major Eric Dutton, at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, in the presence of the Duchess of Gloucester and Lady Margaret Hawkins, the sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. The guests included Major Otzen. who fought for Germany against Sir Hubert Gough’s troops, and the Baron and Baroness von Bieberstein. Mr Lloyd George has written to Sir Hubert Gough, the commander whom he made the scapegoat when the Fifth British Army was compelled to retreat in France in 1918, after an overwhelming attack by the Germans on a 40-mile front, admitting that facts which came to his knowledge after the war completely changed his mind about the responsibility for the defeat. He added: “You were completely let down. No general could have won that battle in the conditions in which you were placed.”