Frederick Witts

Lieutenant-General Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts CB, CBE, DSO, MC (30 January 1889 – 1969) was a senior British Army officer.

Frederick Witts
Born30 January 1889
Upper Slaughter
Died1969
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankLieutenant-General
Commands held8th Indian Brigade
45th Infantry Division
59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division
Bombay District
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross

Military career

Educated at Radley College,[1] Witts was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 23 July 1907.[2] He served in First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.[3] He became Commander Royal Engineers for the 5th Infantry Division in 1933, Brigadier on the general staff of Western Command in India in December 1937 and commander of 8th Indian Brigade in India in May 1938.[4]

In the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding 45th Infantry Division from September 1939, Deputy Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force in France from April 1940 and General Officer Commanding 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division from May 1940.[5] After that he became General Officer Commanding Bombay District in India from July 1941 and Acting General Officer Commanding Southern Command in India in 1942 before retiring in 1943.[6]

References
  1. Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1902). "Visitation of England and Wales". Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0788404054.
  2. "No. 28049". The London Gazette. 9 August 1907. p. 5450.
  3. "No. 13071". The Edinburgh Gazette. 28 March 1917. p. 642.
  4. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  5. Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1990]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1., p. 39
  6. "Witts, Frederick Vavasour Broome". Generals.dk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
Military offices
New title GOC 45th Infantry Division
1939−1940		 Succeeded by
Desmond Anderson
Preceded by
Ralph Eastwood		 GOC 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division
1940–1941		 Succeeded by
James Steele
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