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Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sadleir Brereton, CBE (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) who often wrote under the name Captain Brereton, was a British Army medical officer and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.
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.
Cavendish was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. [3] He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 10th Dragoons in 1808 and was deployed to Spain and was wounded at the Battle of Corunna in January 1809 during the Peninsular War. [3] In 1812 he entered Parliament for Derby, a seat which he held until 1834. [3]
Major General Robert Tryon Frederick (March 14, 1907 – November 29, 1970) was a senior United States Army officer.During World War II, he commanded the 1st Special Service Force nicknamed the "Devil's Brigade", and the 1st Allied Airborne Task Force an ad hoc division-sized airborne formation, commanding the task force as a Brigadier General during Operation Dragoon.
Vokes commuted the sentence to life imprisonment saying, "There isn't a general or colonel on the Allied side that I know of who hasn't said, 'Well, this time we don't want any prisoners ' ". [50] The Canadian Army official historian, Colonel Charles Stacey, visited Friesoythe on 15 April. He wrote in the Canadian Army official history, which ...
In 1870 The Earl of Lovelace resigned the command after 17 years and became the regiment's Honorary Colonel and was succeeded as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant (the rank of colonel in the militia having been abolished) by Lt-Col Charles Calvert, who died later that year and was succeeded by Major William Sharp.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, VC, OBE (17 September 1892 – 6 December 1980) was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Frank Spencer, MBE, Indian Army, General Headquarters, New Delhi, India. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Grace Smith, MBE, ED, Officer Commanding, Ceylon Medical Corps. Royal Air Force. Group Captain Donald David Christie, AFC. Acting Group Captain William Digby Blackwood, DFC.