William Henry Ewart "Strafer" Gott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (13 August 1897 - 7 August 1942) was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant general when serving in the British Eighth Army. An officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), Gott served with distinction with the BEF in France during World War I. Arriving in Egypt in 1939 as a lieutenant colonel commanding the 1st Battalion KRRC, … Wikipedia
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