Frank Dutton Frost
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Frank Dutton Frost
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| Born | 1882 |
| Died | 3 December 1968 |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |
 British Indian Army |
| Rank | Brigadier-general |
| Battles/wars | Second Boer War World War I |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross |
Brigadier-general Frank Dutton Frost CBE, MC (17 January 1882 - 3 December 1968) was a British Army officer, who later joined the British Indian Army.[1] He served during the Second Boer War as a trooper with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry contingent to the Imperial Yeomanry and later the Cheshire Regiment (into whom he received a regular commission in 1906), and during the First World War. On the 21st September 1914, he transferred to the Supply & Transport Corps of the British Indian Army.[2] On retirement from the Army in October 1930 with the rank of colonel and honorary brigadier-general, he then worked as a missionary in the North-West Frontier until 1945.
In married in 1912 Elsie Dora Bright. Their son was John Dutton Frost, an officer who served in the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War. They also had two daughters. She died in 1952. In 1954 he married for a second time, Rhoda Collins, widow of Edward Collins, Kelvindale.
References
- ↑ ‘FROST, Brig.-Gen. Frank Dutton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 11 April 2014
- ↑ January 1919 Indian Army List
