Erection date: 2005
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926.
English Heritage
SW1, Belgrave Square, 34
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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