Frank Dutton Frost

Frank Dutton Frost
Born	1882
Died	3 December 1968
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	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]

Biography

Frost served during the Second Boer War as a trooper with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry contingent to the Imperial Yeomanry and later the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, where he was promoted a lieutenant on 31 May 1902,^[2] and into which regiment he received a regular commission in 1906. He later served during the First World War, on the 21st September 1914 he transferred to the Supply & Transport Corps of the British Indian Army.^[3] 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.

He 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.

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