Frank William Ramsay

Major-General

Frank William Ramsay

CB CMG DSO
Ramsay (centre) with officers in 1917
Born10 December 1875
Died1 October 1954 (aged 78)
Weymouth, Dorset, UK
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch
 British Army
Rank
Major-General
Commands48th Brigade
58th Division (1918–1919)
6th Infantry Brigade (1919–1923)
Conflicts
World War I
AwardsDistinguished Service Order

Major-General Frank William Ramsay CB CMG DSO (10 December 1875 – 1 October 1954) was a senior British Army officer in the First World War.

Early life

Ramsay was educated at Dean Close School in Cheltenham.[1]

Military career

Ramsay on horseback in 1917

Ramsay transferred from the Northumberland Militia Artillery into the Middlesex Regiment on 15 May 1897.[2]

He served with the mounted infantry before the First World War, being seconded to serve with them on 21 November 1907.[3] He was promoted from supernumerary captain to captain on 26 January 1903.[4]

In the war, on 1 September 1914, he was promoted to major.[5] He served as commander of the 16th (Irish) Division's 48th Infantry Brigade in January 1916 and was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general whilst employed in this role.[6] He participated in the Battle of Messines in 1917 and went on to be General Officer Commanding 58th (2/1st London) Division in June 1918.[7]

In January 1919 he was promoted to brevet colonel.[8]

In 1925 he took command over a brigade of the Quetta Division, which he commanded with the temporary rank of colonel commandant while employed.[9] On 1 September 1926 he was assigned to command the 15th Indian Infantry Brigade.[10] He retired from the army in 1929. Later he lived in Holbrook Hall, Sudbury.[11]

Ramsey was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1917 and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1919.[11]

Works

  • "Polo Pony Training with Some Hints on the Game" London and Portsmouth, Gale & Polden (1928)[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Distinguished Old Decanians". Issuu. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "No. 26852". The London Gazette. 14 May 1897. p. 2683.
  3. ↑ "No. 28087". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 December 1907. p. 8608.
  4. ↑ "No. 27536". The London Gazette. 20 March 1903. p. 1856.
  5. ↑ "No. 28890". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 September 1914. p. 6980.
  6. ↑ "No. 29478". The London Gazette. 18 February 1916. p. 1810.
  7. ↑ Becke, Maj A.F. History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th), with the Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions, London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-39-8, pp. 9-15
  8. ↑ "No. 31092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1918. p. 14.
  9. ↑ "No. 33062". The London Gazette. 30 June 1925. p. 4366.
  10. ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33224/page/7681
  11. 1 2 Who Was Who. Volume V. A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those who died during the period 1951 - 1960, A & C Black Limited, 1964.
  12. ↑ Horace A. Laffaye:"The Polo Encyclopedia, 2d ed.", McFarland & Co. Inc. (2015); ISBN 978-0786495771, p. 306
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