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General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson, (1899–1986) was a British Army general during the 1940s. ==Military career== Born on 21 March 1899, Simpson was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School,〔(Bishop Cotton Boys' School Alumni )〕 Bedford School, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.〔(Who's Who )〕 He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1916.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 He served in World War I in France and Belgium in 1918 and then after the War went to Afghanistan and the North West Frontier of India.〔 He also served in World War II initially in France and Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force and was involved in the defence of Arras and then the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.〔 He became Chief of Staff to General Bernard Law Montgomery in 1940 and then Deputy Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1942 being promoted to Director of Military Operations in 1943.〔 After the War he became Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff for Operations in 1945 and then Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff in 1946.〔 In this role he fought cut-backs in the size of the Army.〔(''Big wars and small wars: the British army and the lessons of war in the 20th Century'' By Hew Strachan, Page 69 ) Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-54504-4〕 In 1948 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command and in 1952 he became Commandant of the Imperial Defence College: he retired in 1954.〔
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