Frank Witts
Brigadier Frank Hole Witts DSO MC (22 February 1887 – 9 May 1941) was a British Army officer. Witts was born in Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, the son of Rev. Canon Francis Edward Broome Witts and Margaret Bourne. He was educated at Radley College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1906. In August 1914 he received a temporary commission in the Irish Guards and served in France throughout the First World War. He had a distinguished record, being Mentioned in Dispatches three times, wounded three times, and receiving the Military Cross on 1 November 1917. He was given a permanent commission in the Irish Guards in 1916 and ended the war as a captain. On 2 June 1919 he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
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Frank Witts
Brigadier Frank Hole Witts DSO MC (22 February 1887 – 9 May 1941) was a British Army officer. Witts was born in Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, the son of Rev. Canon Francis Edward Broome Witts and Margaret Bourne. He was educated at Radley College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1906. In August 1914 he received a temporary commission in the Irish Guards and served in France throughout the First World War. He had a distinguished record, being Mentioned in Dispatches three times, wounded three times, and receiving the Military Cross on 1 November 1917. He was given a permanent commission in the Irish Guards in 1916 and ended the war as a captain. On 2 June 1919 he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
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Brigadier Frank Hole Witts DSO ...... h Leonide Brocklebank in 1919.
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1st Battalion,King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
8th Infantry Brigade
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1887-02-22
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Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire
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1941-05-09
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Glasgow, Scotland
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Brigadier Frank Hole Witts DSO ...... e Distinguished Service Order.
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