Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sadleir Brereton,
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) who often wrote under the name Captain Brereton, was a British
Army
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medical officer and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.
Early career
Brereton was commissioned into the
Royal Army Medical Corps
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. The RAMC, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps a ...
(RAMC) as a
surgeon-lieutenant on 29 January 1896, and was promoted to
captain
Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...
on 29 January 1899. During the
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...
he was attached as a medical officer to the
Scots Guards
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. He retired his commission on 22 November 1902, after the end of the war in South Africa.
First World War
Brereton served again in the RAMC during the
First World War
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with the rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel. In 1919 he was appointed as a Commander of the Portuguese
Order of Aviz
The Military Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz ( pt, Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis, ), previously to 1910 ''Royal Military Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz'' ( pt, Real Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis), previously to 1789 ''Knights'' (of ...
and a
CBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
.
Personal life
Brereton married Ethel Lamb in 1898 and Isobel Murdoch in 1953.
Bibliography
References
External links
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The Dacorum Heritage Trust article on F. S. Brereton.Who's who 2016 & Who was who article on F. S. Brereton.
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1872 births
1957 deaths
19th-century British writers
20th-century British writers
20th-century English medical doctors
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel of the Second Boer War
Commanders of the Order of Aviz
Royal Army Medical Corps officers