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|battles=[[Second Boer War]]<br>[[World War I]]<br />
|awards= [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]<br>[[Military Cross]]<br />
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]<br />
|birth_date=17 January 1882<br />
|death_date=3 December 1968 (aged 86)<br />
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|serviceyears=1901–1930<br />
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[[Brigadier-general]] '''Frank Dutton Frost''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|MC}} (17 January 1882 – 3 December 1968) was a [[British Army]] officer, who later joined the [[British Indian Army]].<ref>'FROST, Brig.-Gen. Frank Dutton', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U48725 Retrieved 11 April 2014]</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Frost served in South Africa during the [[Second Boer War]], first as a trooper with the [[Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry]] contingent to the [[Imperial Yeomanry]], and from November 1901 with the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[Cheshire Regiment]], where he was commissioned a [[second lieutenant]]. He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 31 May 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27454|page=4513| date=15 July 1902}}</ref> and left South Africa with the rest of the battalion in September 1902, after the end of the war.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home |date=16 September 1902 |page=6 |issue=36874}}</ref> He received a regular commission in the Cheshire regiment in 1906.<br />
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Frost served during the [[First World War]], on 21 September 1914 he transferred to the Supply & Transport Corps of the British Indian Army.<ref>January 1919 Indian Army List</ref> On retirement from the Army in October 1930 with the rank of colonel and honorary [[brigadier-general]], he then worked as a missionary in the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier]] until 1945.<br />
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He married in 1912 Elsie Dora Bright. Their son was [[John Frost (British Army officer)|John Dutton Frost]], an officer who served in the [[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|Parachute Regiment]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. They also had two daughters. His wife died in 1952. In 1954 he married for a second time, Rhoda Collins, widow of Edward Collins, Kelvindale.<br />
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