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Frederick was serving as a staff officer in the War Department when the United States entered World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942 Frederick, then a lieutenant colonel, was tasked with raising a new U.S.-Canadian regiment size commando force, which became the 1st Special Service Force (later called the "Devil's ...
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Henry Howard DSO MC* (25 February 1915 – 6 May 2000) was a British Army officer who was twice awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and was later awarded the Distinguished Service Order for leadership whilst commanding the 1st Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 43rd) in the North-West Europe campaign during the Second World War.
Colonel Frederick Mears (May 5, 1878 – January 11, 1939) was an American military officer in the US Army and railroad engineer and executive. He was the son of a career army officer and his brother Major Edward C. Mears was also in the US army. [1] Mears was principal engineer of the Alaska Railroad.
Elmhirst, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles late 9th Regiment (Depot Battalion) Elmsall, Brevet-Major William de Cardonnel, 1st Royal Dragoons. Cavalry; Elphinstone, Lieutenant Howard Craufurd. RE; Elrington, Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Robert Rifle Brigade; Elton, Brevet-Major Frederick Cockayne 55th Regiment; Elton, Lieutenant Frederick ...
Lieutenant colonel Frederick Irving Eglin (February 23, 1891 – January 1, 1937) was a career officer in the United States Army Air Service and United States Army Air Corps . He was killed in an air crash on January 1, 1937, and Eglin Field (later Eglin Air Force Base ), Florida, was named in his honor on August 4, 1937.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton DSO OBE DL TD FRS PRAS [1] (16 October 1881 – 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer.
Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was born on 20 December 1896 at his family home at 31 Hans Road, Brompton, London. The house was later demolished to make way for an expansion of Harrods, allowing him to claim in later life that he had been born in its piano department.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Chidley Irwin. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Chidley Irwin, KH (22 March 1794 – 31 March 1860) [1] was acting Governor of Western Australia from 1847 to 1848. Born in 1794 in Drogheda, Ireland, Frederick Chidley Irwin was the son of Reverend James Irwin. [1] Some sources give the year 1788 as his birthyear. [2]