British Army Brigadier General, Third Somaliland Expedition (Anglo-Somali War) Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award from British King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 29 February 1904 for his action as a brevet major in The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) on April 22, 1903, near Daratoleh, British Somaliland. Born in Murree, British India (at that time), he was the son of General Sir Charles Gough, and nephew of General Sir Hugh Gough, both of whom were awarded Victoria Crosses during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. After he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in December 1893. He served in British Central Africa in 1896, the Sudan in 1898, and took part in the Occupation of Crete (1898 to 1899). Promoted to the rank of captain in December 1898, he served in the Second Boer War from 1899 until 1902 and received a brevet rank of major in November 1900. He then was sent to Berbera to be a Staff Officer in a Flying column in the Somaliland Field Force, serving in British Somaliland during the Third Somaliland Expedition. While there, he was in command of a column on the march which was attacked by an enemy force in superior numbers led by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan near Daratoleh. After conducting a successful defense, then a fighting withdrawal, he came back to help two captains (William George Walker and George Murray Rolland). The captains were helping a mortally wounded officer. They managed to get the wounded officer onto a camel, but then he was wounded again and died immediately. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, he was Chief of Staff to Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig at Aldershot Command. He played a role in the Curragh Incident in March 1914, in which his brother and other cavalry officers stationed in Ireland threatened to resign rather than coerce Ulster Protestants who had no wish to be part of an Irish state governed from Dublin. After World War I erupted, he went to France as a brigadier general with the British Expeditionary Force, as Chief-of-Staff to Douglas Haig's I Corps. On February 20, 1915, he was visiting his old Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, in the line at Fauquissart, near Neuve Chapelle, France. While in the line, he was hit in the abdomen by a chance ricochet of a German bullet which mortally wounded him. He died of his wound two days later at the age of 43 and was interred in the Estaires Communal Cemetery. On April 20, 1915, he was posthumously knighted with the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, in Winchester, England. A cenotaph in his honor was erected at the Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, England.