Major-General Richard George Fellowes Frisby (1911–1982) was a

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officer.

Military career

Educated at Haileybury and the

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, Frisby was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment on 27 August 1931. He served in

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in the late 1930s for which he was awarded the

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. He served as commanding officer of the 4th Battalion the Welch Regiment in

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from 1944 to 1945 during the

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. After the war, he served as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the

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from 1945 to 1946, commanding officer of 14th Battalion the Parachute Regiment from 1949 to 1951 and then commanding officer of the

again from 1951 to 1953. He went on to become commander of the Tactical Wing of the

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in 1953, commander of the Commonwealth Brigade Group in

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in 1955 and commander of 24th Infantry Brigade in January 1957. After that he became brigadier on the general staff at Eastern Command in May 1959, General Officer Commanding the

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in February 1961 and Chief of Staff at

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in December 1963 before retiring in December 1965. He was appointed a Deputy lieutenant of

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in April 1981.

Family

In 1938 he married Elizabeth Mary Murray; they had two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frisby, Richard 1911 births 1982 deaths Deputy Lieutenants of Hampshire British Army major generals Companions of the Order of the Bath Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Recipients of the Military Cross Royal Hampshire Regiment officers British military personnel of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst British Army personnel of World War II British Army personnel of the Korean War People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College