Later Life
In 1919 he was the head of the Allied Military Mission to the Baltic States (see United Baltic Duchy). He was a signatory to joint statement issued with other officers and advisors who had served in Russia, who on February 23 1920 indicated their support of peace between the British and the Bolshevik Russia. He retired as a general in 1922.
From 1936 until 1943, he was honorary colonel of the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, and President of the Irish Servicemen's Shamrock Club in Park Lane, London W.1.
His book, The Fifth Army, defended his record as commander in 1918.
Gough died in London on 18 March 1963, aged 92. He suffered from bronchial pneumonia for a month before he died, but it is unclear whether this was the cause of death.
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