Major-General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Frank Griffiths Caldwell, OBE, MC

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(26 February 1921 – 22 November 2014) was a

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officer who became Assistant Chief of the General Staff.

Military career

Educated at Elizabeth College and the

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, Caldwell was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1940 during the

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. He served in the

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, where he was awarded the

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in May 1941 and a

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to it in December 1941, and in North West Europe. He also served in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency in the rank of major. He was appointed Director of Defence Operational Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1970 and Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1972 before retiring in 1974. He died on 22 November 2014 in Guernsey.

Family

He married Betty Palmer Buesden; they have a daughter and a son.Descendants of Stanley Howard
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caldwell, Frank 1921 births 2014 deaths British Army major generals Royal Engineers officers Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Military Cross Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst British Army personnel of World War II