John Fryer (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir John Fryer, KCB, (27 June 1838[1] – 28 January 1917) was a British Army officer.[2]
Fryer was born at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, the eldest son of John Fryer and Mary Rogers Fryer.[3]
After studying at Exeter College, Oxford, he entered the Army in 1860 as a cornet in The Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards). He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 18 February 1862, captain on 5 April 1864, major on 15 December 1869, and lieutenant-colonel on 17 March 1877.[4] As such he commanded the regiment from 1877 to 1882, during which he was promoted to the rank of colonel on 1 July 1881.[4] His period of command included the regiment's operations in Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). After stepping down from his command, he was further promoted to major-general on 23 July 1890, and lieutenant-general on 14 December 1898.[4]
He was appointed to the honorary position as Colonel of the 6th Dragoon Guards on 18 September 1902,[5] serving as such until his death in 1917. He was advanced to a Knight Commander in the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1903.
References[edit]
- Obituary: p. 154, The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.
- 1838 births
- 1917 deaths
- People from Wimborne Minster
- British Army lieutenant generals
- Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) officers
- British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Military personnel from Dorset
- 19th-century British Army personnel