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  • Frederick Wing
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  • 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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serviceyears
  • 1880
Birth Date
  • 1860-11-29
Commands
  • 12
Branch
  • 22
Name
  • Frederick Wing
Title
  • Commander of the 12th (Eastern) Division
Awards
death date
  • 1915-10-02
Rank
Allegiance
  • United Kingdom
Battles
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  • --03-15
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abstract
  • 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.