John Frost
British Army general
Died when: 80 years 141 days (964 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Major-General John Dutton Frost, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (31 December 1912 – 21 May 1993) was an airborne officer of the British Army best known for being the leader of the small group of British airborne troops that actually arrived at Arnhem bridge during the Battle of Arnhem in Operation Market Garden, in World War II.
He was one of the first to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment and served with distinction in many wartime airborne operations, such as in North Africa and Sicily and Italy, until his injury and subsequent capture at Arnhem.
He retired from the army in 1968 to become a beef cattle farmer in West Sussex.
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