Frederick Willis (British Army officer) explained

Sir Frederick Willis
Birth Date:16 July 1827[1]
Birth Place:Kensington, London
Death Place:Worplesdon, Surrey
Birth Name:Frederick Arthur Willis
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Branch: British Army
Rank:Lieutenant-General
Commands:Northern District
Awards:Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Willis (16 July 1827 – 28 May 1899) was a British Army General who held high office in the 1880s.[2]

Military career

Willis was commissioned into the 70th Regiment of Foot in 1844.

In 1881, he was invited to command an Infantry Brigade at Aldershot and then in 1884 he was appointed General Officer Commanding Northern District. He remained in this post until 1886.[3]

He was awarded the colonelcy of the Northumberland Fusiliers from 1895 to his death in 1899.[4]

He was made KCB posthumously in the 1899 Birthday Honours, which were announced days after his death.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Boase . Frederic . Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter . 1901 . Netherton and Worth, For the author . 1387 . en.
  2. News: Deaths . . 1 June 1899. 1.
  3. Whitaker's Almanack 1886
  4. Web site: Colonels. British Empire. 6 February 2016.