Frederick Wing Military person

Major-General Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing CB (29 November 1860 – 2 October 1915) was a senior officer of the British Army during the First World War and was one of three British divisional commanders killed in action in the space of a week in the aftermath of the Battle of Loos. Wing had served in the army for over thirty years at the time of his death, having been commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1880. He had served with distinction in the Second Boer War and been an aide de camp to Lord Roberts in 1903.

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Frederick Wing
Alias (AKA)Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1860
Date of deathOctober 02, 1915
Place of death
France , Mazingarbe

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Military person

allegianceUnited Kingdom
award
Order of the Bath
military operations
Second Boer War
Western Front (World War I)
World War I
military branch
British Army
military command12th Infantry Division
service start1880
service end1880

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