Francis Festing
Army officer
Died when: 74 years 157 days (893 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing, GCB, KBE, DSO, DL (Mandarin: ???, fei shì tíng; 28 August 1902 – 3 August 1976) was a senior British Army officer.
His most important posts were as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong (1945–46 and 1949), General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Troops in Egypt (1952), GOC Eastern Command (1954), Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces (1956), and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1958–61).
He saw active service in the Second World War, taking a prominent role in Operation Ironclad (the Battle of Madagascar) and the Arakan offensive of the Burma campaign, and later advised the British government on ending conscription and reducing the size of the army by fifteen battalions.
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