Frank William Ramsay

"Frank Ramsay" redirects here. For people with a similar name, see Frank Ramsey (disambiguation).

Frank William Ramsay
Ramsay (center) with officers in 1917
Born10 December 1875
Died1 October 1954 (aged 78)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
RankMajor-General
Commands48th Brigade
58th Division (1918-1919)
6th Infantry Brigade(1919-1923)
Battles / warsWorld War I
AwardsDistinguished Service Order

Major-General Frank William Ramsay CB CMG DSO (10 December 1875 – 1 October 1954) was a senior British Army officer in the First World War.

Military career

Ramsay on horseback in 1917

Ramsay transferred from the militia into the Middlesex Regiment on 15 May 1897.[1]

He served with the mounted infantry before the First World War. In the war, he served as commander of 48th Brigade and participated in the Battle of Messines in 1917. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 58th (2/1st London) Division in June 1918.[2]

In 1925 he took command over a Brigade of the Quetta Division until he retired in 1929. Later he lived in Holbrook Hall, Sudbury.[3]

Ramsey was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1917 and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1919.[3]

Works

  • "Polo Pony Training with Some Hints on the Game" London and Portsmouth, Gale & Polden (1928)[4]

References

  1. ^ "No. 26852". The London Gazette. 14 May 1897. p. 2683.
  2. ^ Becke, Maj A.F. History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8, pp. 9-15
  3. ^ a b Who Was Who. Volume V. A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those who died during the period 1951 - 1960, A & C Black Limited, 1964.
  4. ^ Horace A. Laffaye:"The Polo Encyclopedia, 2d ed.", McFarland & Co. Inc. (2015); ISBN 978-0786495771, p. 306
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Preceded by GOC 58th (2/1st London) Division
1918–1919 		Succeeded by
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